I like me some internet videos now and again. Take this one, for example:
I thought it was pretty cool. Granted, it’s hardly an original idea and the text at the end is a bit ham-fisted. Still, I thought the presentation was kind of fun and the music worked well.
Then, like I always do, I made a terrible mistake. I scrolled down. To…you know…look at the comments. I’ll share a few choice ones so you don’t have to sift through them.
holy fuckin shit
imagine a planet that size and it was inhabitable. we wud greenhouse gas earth so fast then move over
Yeah, imagine a planet that size indeed. Did you sleep through science class? Anything with that much mass would become a star. Even it if WERE a planet the gravity would be so high that you’d be squashed like a grape. Idiot. At least it inspired a sense of awe. Oh, then it inspired justified environmental destruction.
You’re dumb if you think that everything in the entire universe was at one point concentrated into a.. I can’t even call it thing.. the size of a quark? Nty, I’ll go with God. Makes much more sense.
Yes, of course. Much more sense. It’s all clear to me now. Thank you for that.
The point here is that the YouTube comment area seems to bring out a special brand of stupid unmatched elsewhere in the known universe. For some reason, though, I can’t not look at them if they are there. Looking at them ruins the video (and the rest of my day) for me. It’s a vicious cycle.
After watching this particular video, I actually said out loud, “You know, if I never saw another YouTube comment again, it would be too soon.” (Okay, I didn’t actually say it out loud, but still.) As fortune would have it, I use Firefox. After a few minutes of research, I figured out how to banish YouTube comments forever. (Or until they significantly change the page structure of the video pages.)
How to do it:
- Use Mozilla Firefox. (Sorry, IE folks. Can’t help you.)
- Find your profile directory. Instructions on this are here.
- In your profile directory, there is a folder called chrome.
- In the chrome directory, create a file called userContent.css
- Make the contents of userContent.css the following:
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#watch-tab-commentary-body{
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visibility: hidden;
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}
Save the file and restart your browser. YouTube comments won’t show up. If you ever want them back, just temporarily rename or simply delete userContent.css That’s all there is to it! I’ve had this working for a day or two now. I already feel smarter!
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