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As anyone with an internet connection will tell you, YouTube is a treasure trove of entertainment and knowledge. Giggle inducing personal rants, drunken midnight confessionals, honey badgers, music videos, short films; you name it, and Google’s video service can likely dish it up for free. Well, almost free. In order to enjoy the millions of free videos that YouTube has on tap, you’ll also have to endure the oft-times tragically inane, sometimes troll-baiting, often gobsmacking viewer comments that come along with it. Unless of course, you decide to install No YouTube Comments, our Browser Extension of the Week.
When it comes to wiping YouTube user comments out of existence, No YouTube Comments is a laser guided smart bomb. Just install it, look up a video on YouTube and enjoy it without any prattle from the peanut gallery. If for some reason you feel like you’d like to have the option to turn YouTube’s commentary features back on, the extension's developer has you covered.
By downloading Doychin Atanasov’s Button for No YouTube Comments, you’ll be able to switch between the sometimes hateful chaos of the written commentary found on YouTube, and the peace and quiet of comment-free videos with the click of your mouse.
Be sure to check back every Thursday for another edition of Maximum PC’s Browser Extension of the Week.
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Architek9
September 16, 2011 at 10:15am
this is a movement i can get behind
now they just need one of these for maxPC
Teeebs
September 16, 2011 at 4:38am
How about a way to block the annoying pre-video ads instead. Comments can be easily ignored, the non-skippable ads....not so much....
Peanut Fox
September 16, 2011 at 8:01am
Ad Block Plus works for me on Google Chrome. Give that a try with whatever brower you're using.
Teeebs
September 16, 2011 at 7:55pm
Doesn't work (on Firefox at least). Ad Block will block all the ads down the side of the page, but the pre-video ad that you are forced to sit through CANNOT be blocked that way. And the "refresh the page trick" has stopped working too. Suffice to say, I'm spending less and less time on Youtube all the time....
dethdeks
September 15, 2011 at 8:48pm
if they wanna make something useful why not make a extension that shuts off them stupid annotations that videos have, i know theres a button that does it but wouldnt it just be easier to have it do it auto for all videos
Dartht33bagger
September 15, 2011 at 6:09pm
Why does this even exist? If you don't want to read the comments, then don't read them. No need to add another extension to your browser and have it use more resources than it already does.
r6srider
September 15, 2011 at 2:19pm
Sounds like a waste of time. If you don't want to read the comments, then don't, it's that freakin easy. Click a video, watch and don't scroll down to see the trolls.
and @ Hg Dragon, just click the hide annotations button and they go away.
jaxsteven
September 15, 2011 at 12:23pm
"YouTube Options for Google Chrome" can do this, with better control on what you can and can't see.
Hg Dragon
September 15, 2011 at 11:50am
So, instead of just not reading the things, someone decided to create a browser extension? Seems like a lot of work for little reward.
Now, if someone would make an extension to stop the damned comment bubbles from popping up on videos, that I could get behind
tornato7
September 15, 2011 at 2:22pm
Dude, just click the 'turn off annotations' button on the bottom right of a youtube video, or change it in your preferences
