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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-tab-a...

I built this for personal use, but maybe someone else also finds it useful.

It's a Firefox add-on that arranges YouTube video tabs based on the runtime of the video. I often hoard many YouTube tabs and at some point I want to either watch the shortest ones or play something lengthy so I can do household chores while listening to the video. This makes finding the correct video from tens of different tabs so much easier. There is one known major bug: if a video is playing, the sorting doesn't work.

There is an older version published for Microsoft Edge, but Edge Add-ons started rejecting the updates based on unclear reasons (something along the lines of "no value for user" ???). When reaching for support through email, I only get responses from people who don't understand English and just copy-paste the exact same unclear rejection report and close the ticket.

Chrome Web Store has a publishing fee and outright rejects me paying it, probably because I live in Switzerland and my credit card is from a Finnish bank.

> Chrome Web Store has a publishing fee

Excuse me, what?! Everytime I think I'm unhappy with Mozilla, I find way more disturbing things at Google.

Cool Add-On btw, I'll try it!

Well TIL https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/register/

It's $5, but still...

I think it pays for the 5 minutes of someones time to glance over the extension and check it doesn't obviously violate the store rules.

Also, turns out $5 deters most spammers.

If I spend a few hours of my time developing a Chrome extension for free, and publish it on the store, then users get to use it for free, but if Google wants $5 then suddenly I am investing both time and money into something where I will never get any reward.

Somehow, donating time for the benefit of others, or money for the benefit of others is fine, but as soon as I'm donating both, it feels like it's not worth it.

Yes, this is an irrational view.

Just create a base system for yourself

You can convert easily between hours and money so that you can resolve the problem of both by conversion of one to the preferred

So assuming you make $100/hr:

“I can’t believe I gave 10 hours to this and then they want to charge me an additional $5 on top!?”

Turns into

“I just gave 10 hours to this, and they want me to give 3 more minutes of my time to publish it?”

This is mostly to deter malicious behavior because it makes it unprofitable for bad actors to publish malware by spamming the store with dumb apps that are only life-support systems for their little packages of joy.

It's a high enough bar to trip up a lot of bad actors, but low enough that it's a simple annoyance for most of us.

But yeah, reason 4,590,234,761 why people who misbehave make things more expensive/difficult/time-consuming for the rest of us.

ah yes the “this is why we can’t have nice things” fee

Interesting $5 one time is high enough bar for Chrome extensions store, but $5/mo. is not for bots on certain blue social media. Not disputing facts, just... weird.

Apples and oranges. Google bills you directly, Twitter/X bills indirectly through platforms who do not provide sufficient transparency to prevent repeat abuse.

Last I checked Twitter/X had no way to prevent you from signing up again after a ban if you paid via Apple Pay, as an example.

ah yes, developer mode??

Is that new? I definitely didn't have to pay when I published an extension around november last year.

You might be interested in my CLI tool

After adding all the tabs

    pip install xklb
    lb tubeadd temp.db $(cb)

You can stream them by

    lb watch temp.db -u duration

or

    lb listen temp.db -u duration desc

If you use chromecast you can even do

    lb watch *above_args -c -t "Kitchen speaker group"

`cb` in the above context is `xclip -selection c`

https://github.com/niedzielski/cb

Blocked at the same step with my extension: linkedin noise remover.

https://github.com/deejayy/linkedin-noise-remover

If somebody is already a certified chrome extension publisher, feel free to upload it :)

This is super cool, I'll install this!

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