About this extension

Detects spam comments and automatically hides them, protecting its users from spoofers, adult content pushers, and other annoyances.

If the add-on hides a comment you want to see, simply click the "Likely spam (+)" text and it will reveal the hidden comment (with the profile picture blurred just in case). Displaying the reason the comment was marked as spam can be disabled/enabled via the "spam reason labels" in the options menu.

Permissions descriptions:

- Store unlimited amount of client-side data
Needed to store the machine learning model that detects adult imagery (~25MB)

- Access your data for www.youtube.com
- Access your data for youtube.com
- Access your data for yt3.ggpht.com
Needed for base functionality, modifying the comment area in YouTube and accessing user avatars (that last URL is where the images are stored)

- Access your data for raw.githubusercontent.com
Needed to download the machine learning model that detects adult imagery. It is too large (~25MB) to distribute with the add-on. Additionally, this repository hosts the latest version of the list of allowed sites so that it can be updated without having to push a new version of the extension.

Developer comments

Please report bugs here:
https://github.com/samipfjo/YouTube-Spam-Remover/issues

For a technical description of how the add-on works, see here:
https://github.com/samipfjo/YouTube-Spam-Remover

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Release notes for 2.4.1

(September 5, 2024) v2.4.1

This version adds a bugfix for the handling of open YouTube videos just after the extension is installed. Previously they would get stuck hidden until the user loaded more comments.

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