YOM v1.4.0 - Player whitelist, update splash, persistent data

YOM v1.4.0

Fixes

• Player embeds (VidSrc family, embed.su, 2embed, autoembed, smashy, vidlink, filemoon, multiembed, etc.) are now whitelisted, so clicking a player loads the stream instead of being blocked by the adblocker.
• window.open is intercepted: ad popups are dropped, but legitimate player navigations are kept by reusing the main window.

New

• Animated YOM splash on startup with a red loading spinner that says "Checking for updates" and queries GitHub Releases for hendev75/YOM. If a newer version is available you can open the release page in your default browser with one click; otherwise the splash fades out automatically.
• Persistent user data on every platform. Saved lists, watch history, timestamps, favorites and similar localStorage/IndexedDB data are now stored in a stable per-user folder so they survive restarts and updates:
  • Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\YOM
  • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/YOM
  • Linux/BSD: $XDG_DATA_HOME/YOM (or ~/.local/share/YOM)

Improvements

• Smoother first paint: splash mounts before the page is interactive, then fades.
• Update check times out at 6 seconds and the splash auto-dismisses within 8 seconds at most so it never blocks the UI.

Install

1. Download YOM-v1.4.0-windows-x64.zip
2. Extract anywhere
3. Run YOM.exe (Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime is required; pre-installed on Windows 11 and most updated Windows 10)

YOM v1.3.0 - Real fullscreen + smoother UX

YOM v1.3.0

Fixes

• Fullscreen now expands the entire app window across the monitor (Windows, macOS, Linux/BSD), not just the video element.
• F11 toggles fullscreen, Escape exits fullscreen.
• Smoother window/frame transitions when entering and leaving fullscreen.

Improvements

• Native fullscreen bridge wired through a JS-to-native binding; in-page fullscreen requests are intercepted so the OS window goes fullscreen.
• Built-in adblocker remains enabled by default with cosmetic filtering and anti-detector spoofing.

Install

1. Download YOM-v1.3.0-windows-x64.zip
2. Extract anywhere
3. Run YOM.exe (Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime is required; pre-installed on Windows 11 and most updated Windows 10)

YOM v1.2.0 - Cosmetic filters + anti-anti-adblock

What's new

🛡️ Much stronger adblocker. Three big upgrades to defeat the cases where v1.1.0 still showed ads or got the "please disable your adblocker" popup:

1. Cosmetic filtering (CSS hiding)

Hides ad elements directly in the DOM by selector — even when the ad markup is served first-party from the same domain as the site. Targets [id^="div-gpt-ad"], ins.adsbygoogle, [class*="advert"], [class*="banner-ad"], [class*="sponsored"], ad iframes, and many more.

2. First-party path patterns

URLs containing /ads, /pagead, /adserver, /sponsored, /tracking, /analytics, /beacon, etc. are blocked even on the page's own domain (where domain blocklists can't help).

3. Anti-anti-adblock spoofing

The window now lies to detector scripts:

• window.canRunAds = true, adblockDetected = false, google_ad_status = 1
• adsbygoogle is a Proxy that reports loaded: true
• gtag, ga, _paq, fbq, dataLayer are stubbed so analytics scripts never throw

4. Adblock-warning suppression

DOM nodes whose text matches "please disable your ad-blocker", "ad-blocker detected", "whitelist this site", etc. are removed on sight.

Note on uBlock Origin Lite

Loading the Microsoft Edge Add-ons version of uBO Lite as a real Chromium extension would require WebView2's AreBrowserExtensionsEnabled API — which the cross-platform webview library doesn't expose. The bundled JS adblocker now covers the same defaults (EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Peter Lowe's list) plus the cosmetic and anti-detector pieces, identically on Windows, macOS, Linux and BSD.

Download

• YOM-windows-x64.zip — extract anywhere and run YOM.exe

Requirements

• Windows 10 or 11 (x64)
• Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime (preinstalled on Windows 10 21H2+ and Windows 11)

Other platforms

macOS, Linux and BSD users build from source — see the README. CI builds artifacts for those platforms automatically.

YOM v1.1.0 - Built-in adblocker (uBO 1.70.0)

What's new

🛡️ Built-in adblocker powered by uBlock Origin 1.70.0 filter lists — no extension to install, blocks ads on every page, on every supported platform.

• Bundled lists: EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Peter Lowe's serverlist, urlhaus
• ~103,000 ad/tracker domains compiled into the binary at build time
• Blocks fetch, XMLHttpRequest, sendBeacon, Image, WebSocket, EventSource
• Removes <script>, <iframe>, <img>, <link>, <source> nodes pointing at blocked hosts in real time via MutationObserver

Download

• YOM-windows-x64.zip — extract anywhere and run YOM.exe

Requirements

• Windows 10 or 11 (x64)
• Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime (preinstalled on Windows 10 21H2+ and Windows 11). If missing: https://developer.microsoft.com/microsoft-edge/webview2/

What's inside the ZIP

• YOM.exe — the application (now ~2 MB with embedded blocklist)
• webview.dll — cross-platform webview runtime
• WebView2Loader.dll — Microsoft Edge WebView2 loader
• README.md, LICENSE

Other platforms

macOS, Linux and BSD users build from source — see the README. CI artifacts are produced for those platforms on every push.

YOM v1.0.0 - Windows x64

First Windows release of YOM TV Desktop.

Download

• YOM-windows-x64.zip - extract anywhere and run YOM.exe

Requirements

• Windows 10 or 11 (x64)
• Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime (preinstalled on Windows 10 21H2+ and Windows 11). If missing: https://developer.microsoft.com/microsoft-edge/webview2/

What's inside the ZIP

• YOM.exe - the application
• webview.dll - cross-platform webview runtime
• WebView2Loader.dll - Microsoft Edge WebView2 loader
• README.md, LICENSE

Other platforms

macOS, Linux and BSD users can build from source - see the README. Automated CI builds for those platforms will follow.