urn:uuid:4cc90cb3-c4b2-5067-8b66-4606d5e5b91e Daniel Aleksandersen https://www.daniel.priv.no/ Copyright © 2023 Daniel Aleksandersen. https://www.ctrl.blog/assets/logo/logo-square.svg 2023-02-02T21:39:00Z weekly 10 urn:uuid:1e18b7cf-116d-439d-b00c-3cbd4c18ea88 2022-07-01T09:10:00Z 2022-07-01T09:10:00Z

Fine-tune your preferred playback speed per-channel with Samuel Li’s Speed Controller for YouTube extension. Set and forget on your favorite slow channels.

<p>You can find hundreds of browser extensions that let you fine-tune the playback speed for all YouTube videos. I’m happy with the default speed of 1× for most videos (and music). However, I want to speed up some channels without having to tweak the speed dial every time. Enter Samuel Li’s Speed Controller extension.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/youtube-per-channel-speed.html">Read more …</a></p> urn:uuid:03020027-792e-4468-9999-b84847d6aff6 2019-09-18T15:19:00Z 2023-02-02T21:39:00Z

I explore the new Coil micro-payment system and browser extension, based on the proposed Web Monetization web-standard, and compare it to Flattr.

<p>["2023-02-02"]Both Coil and Flattr has discontinued their automatic browser-based monthly micro-payment subscription services. Coil is a new micro-payment service that resembles Flattr. Both services rely on a web browser extension to automatically pay participating websites and creators from customers’ 5 USD/monthly subscription funds.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/coil-web-monetization.html">Read more …</a></p> urn:uuid:1fad484b-885b-4323-813e-bf4d92821b47 2019-02-01T08:34:00Z 2021-12-23T16:20:00Z

As an extension developer, I support Google’s controversial decision to remove of a slow and over-powered extension API favored by ad-blocking extensions.

<p>…but the proposed <code>declarativeNetRequest</code> API isn’t a good replacement. It’s too limited compared to its too powerful predecessor. So, where does that leave the Chromium browser extensions ecosystem?</p> <p><a href="https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/removing-webrequest-api.html">Read more …</a></p> urn:uuid:005d7589-37ba-4889-bf88-9386488e413a 2018-09-28T11:26:00Z 2018-09-28T11:26:00Z

A new browser extension for Firefox and Chrome that gives people the choice to opt-out of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) in favor of the open web.

<p>The decentralized nature of the web, as it is, is under serious threat from initiatives like the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project spearheaded by Google. Search engines are becoming content repositories for large sections of the web. Many major web publishers have already ceded control over their own websites and handed over a treasure trove of data about their audiences to Bing and Google.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/amp2html-extension.html">Read more …</a></p> urn:uuid:e8388f68-d8c3-442c-a424-0c477b9d4ef9 2018-08-30T13:41:00Z 2018-08-30T13:41:00Z

Ensure better privacy for YouTube videos embedded around the web with this new Firefox browser extension.

<p>Get better privacy for embedded YouTube videos with the Privacy Enhanced Mode for Embedded YouTube Videos extension for Firefox.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/youtube-nocookie.html">Read more …</a></p>