9 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by xrc2, 18 days agoWorks really perfectly. Only issue I found is that it skips to the next video in a playlist every 3 seconds or so
- Rated 5 out of 5by narmlj, 24 days agoThis is the most hilarious functional solution to adblocking. I award it 5 stars just for actually working, in spite of needing to use it like an actual plunger!
If you've been getting stuck on 59 seconds (or 1:04 or whatever), or getting served that notice in the screenshot, this may help you... for now, anyway.
There is a bit of a learning curve in how you handle the plugin, and it needs manual attention every time.
When you visit a youtube link, plunger makes a playlist containing your video overlayed over the actual youtube video to get the video to play. This method does work for bypassing the block, but it can cause problems.
First of all, turn off auto-play in your Tools>Settings>Privacy & Security>Permissions>Autoplay Settings so that the original video doesn't start playing by itself. If the original video does play, press 'F' and pause it. Or just wait it out I guess... it'll lock up after a minute.
Next, the generated playlist may get stuck under the original video where you can't interact with it. Since the hotkeys don't affect the playlist copy until you've interacted with it, this is a problem. To get the playlist video back on top:
1. Disable, and re-enable the extension. Tools>Add-ons and Themes>Look for the toggle switch by plunger and turn it off and on. Leave this open as a tab so you'll have easier access.
2. THEN... hover the mouse-cursor over a video title on the sidebar. If it hasn't loaded because the page is stuck, you may have to reload the page.
I hope we can have some updates to add hotkey functionality, or some improvements so these steps aren't necessary.
Edit: slight correction to method. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18035255, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Glass_Teeth, a year agoAlthough this is great, I'm having trouble with getting the videos to load as of the moment
- Rated 5 out of 5by cle0, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kanga, a year agoWonderful extension! I've looked for something like this since the first day youtube blocked ad-blockers and I'm really happy with it!
- Rated 5 out of 5by ksma, a year agoWhen I first click on a video youtube will tell me it's "unavailable", but just reloading the page lets me watch it.
Developer response
posted a year agoHi, thanks for the reivew! There was a tiny bug in v1.0.0 that should be fixed now :)