⚫ DotYouTube

A Tiny Extension to Block (Some) YouTube Pre-Roll Video Ads

https://github.com/KyleBenzle/DotYouTube • Created by Kyle Benzle 2020 • KyleBenzle.com • kbe@mm.st

//Block some pre-roll YouTube video ads by appending a dot after youtube.com

To run/try on your PC:

1. Unzip the dot-youtube.rar

2. Open chrome and visit chrome://extensions

3. Turn on developer mode at the top-right corner

4. Select load unpacked from the top-left corner

5. Browse through the file system and select the Unzipped folder with name dot-youtube

6. The extension is loaded.

7. Now see it working

    chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener(function (tabId, changeInfo, tab) {
    if (changeInfo.status === "loading" && /youtube.com/.test(changeInfo.url)) {
   
        let url = new URL(tab.url);
        if (!url.hostname.endsWith(".")) {
    
            url.hostname = url.hostname + ".";
            chrome.tabs.update(tabId, { url: url.href });
    }}})