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Learn about vigilant mode.

Dumbify v1.1.0

A calm, text-first YouTube.

An off switch you can reach, Shorts that stop taking up space in your history, and links
that behave like links.

New

An On/Off switch in the toolbar popup. Turning the reading view off used to mean
disabling the whole extension from chrome://extensions. Now it is one click, and open
YouTube tabs follow it either way.

Switched off, Dumbify injects nothing at all — no stylesheet, no bundle. The reading
view is registered at runtime rather than declared in the manifest, so off costs you
nothing on a page it is not touching, and there is no blank frame before YouTube appears.

More in the popup. Text Size and Font alongside the toggles, drawing on the same
lists as the full Settings page, plus a link to rate Dumbify.

Shorts are tagged, not numbered. The numbers in history are its reading order, and a
Short is not a place in it — an afternoon of them used to spend twenty numbers and push
the video you were looking for down to 47. The bundle now carries the Shorts mark, and
real entries read 01, 02, 03 straight through it. The mark is drawn rather than shipped
as a picture, so it takes your reading colour: black on paper, white at night, or
whatever you picked in Settings.

Fixed

  • Cmd-click, Ctrl-click, Shift-click and middle-click now open a new tab from history
    rows, playlist rows, channel cards, the sidebar and the brand. The sidebar was built
    from buttons, which cannot be opened in a tab at all, and the rows cancelled the
    browser's default before it could act on the modifier.
  • Comments say "Comments are turned off" when they are, rather than "no comments yet".
  • Shorts in /history collapse into one row instead of being listed individually.
  • Refreshed icons at every size, and a store name and description that say what the
    extension actually does.

Known limits

  • The channel name inside a video row still will not open in a new tab. It sits inside
    the row's own link, and nested links are not valid HTML — fixing it means restructuring
    the row.
  • The toolbar popup has square corners. Chrome paints the popup window itself and ignores
    a transparent document, so a radius only exposes the frame as white notches.

Load dumbify1.1.0.zip unpacked from chrome://extensions, or wait for the Chrome Web
Store update.

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