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Show HN: Video Off – a Chrome extension that blocks common online video

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1 points by cui a month ago · 1 comment

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cuiOP a month ago

I built Video Off to reduce autoplay/video distractions.

Background: in Firefox, I can edit user.js and disable specific media codecs, which makes blocking video much easier. Chrome doesn’t provide an equivalent user.js/codec-disable path, so this extension uses MV3 static declarativeNetRequest rules to block common video delivery requests.

No analytics/telemetry. No remote code. It blocks many common video requests, but it doesn’t claim perfect coverage on every site/player. I’d love feedback on false positives/negatives and breakage cases.

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