Hi, it's been a while!
Originally, YtcFilter's developer (RomainLK) discontinued development of the extension in 2021. Due to Google's forced introduction of Manifest v3, YtcFilter was due for removal from the Chrome Web Store in June 2024. However, the LiveTL team (the devs behind LiveTL, HyperChat, and several official Hololive projects) has revived development for the project.
YtcFilter v3 is all-new: the entire codebase has been rewritten from scratch, and new powerful filtering functionality has been added. We are currently wrapping up our beta testing phase, and we will roll out the update sometime within the next two months.
Because the v2 extension is very outdated, we cannot guarantee that all data will be transferred correctly to v3. Therefore, we urge you to BACK UP YOUR YTCFILTER STORAGE DATA as soon as possible. This can be done through YtcFilter Popout -> Settings -> Help -> Copy Storage.
If you prefer to continue using YtcFilter v2 rather than upgrading, your options are limited (due to Google's forced MV3 rollout). You may need to find a browser which will continue providing MV2 functionality and sideload a custom release from the v2 repository.
If you have any questions or would like to participate in the YtcFilter v3 beta test, please join our Discord server; we would be happy to assist you. The source code for YtcFilter v3 is also open source on GitHub.
Please look forward to the v3 update!
-Kento
Bug fixes:
- Word-break change
Bug fixes:
- Prevent clear archive button of breaking every video settings
- Fix the remaning storage space indicator again, change was rollbacked in 2.1.5 accidentally
Improvements:
- Added a button to copy storage so as to simplify bug reports.
Bug fixes:
- Double check version number to be sure that store is loaded. This a theorical bug fix for dissapearing configurations. The problem is random/can't be reproduced so this fix may or may not work.
- Avoid error message in console when a message has no content or no author
- Prevent submit on preset creation, resulting in popout reload
- Fix embedded ytcFilter's height not being restored properly
Improvements:
- Block/report button is now in the message toolbar to prevent the slight resizing of message
- Started to write help documentation. Still in progress
- Some styling work. Still in progress.
- Alphanumeric preset now ensure that there is at least 1 character
- Polling to load ytcFilter. Avoid the "ytcFilter is loading" message. No known origin; it could be an update from Youtube
- Popout's title now has the title of the video
- Reduce asynchronous code
- Less alarming logs
- Tooltip for statistic explains the 2 capture modes
Bug fixes:
- Properly manage messages without author
- Word break for message without spaces
- Prevent configuration leak between presets and current video
- Prevent breaking the popout when a video's settings are corrupted
- Thanks Kento Nishi for suggesting to remove 0 width characters from messages
- Fix the remaning storage space indicator
Changes:
- Build no longer compress files in order to hopefully, accelerate review process
Bug fixes:
- Remove block/report button cleanly so that Youtube's livechat can recycle them
- Optimize migration to 2.1.x. It should prevent high CPU/RAM usage during migration, if you haven't migrated already.
- Fix filtering by role in other language than English
- Avoid disconnecting chat when other extensions which require to patch Fetch like LiveTL are enabled
Bug fixes:
- Fix session stats for filtered message which would count 1 message several per filter it matched
- Fix filtering when a user may be both a moderator and member
- Fix missing color for super chat
Bug fixes:
- (Firefox only) Fixed a bug preventing messages to be persisted/displayed in popout when switching to the fetch interceptor
Good bye old interface.
New features:
- Integrate Youtube's block/report menu in current session of embedded ytcFilter so as to fight against spam even for those without the extension. Note that due to the new fetch interceptor, the menu integration may take a minute to appear as fetch interceptor is faster than the livechat. Also, due to Youtube's limitation and performance, the menu can't be used if the message is no longer in the chat, so it's not permanent and may also be missing.
- Drag resize of embedded ytcFIlter
- Configurable automatic storage management
- Alert every minute if less than 5% of storage is available (Firefox is not supported)
Improvements:
- Removed legacy code for old interface which should result in better performance than 2.0.x
- Added a fetch interceptor to complement the Mutation observer. At first, Mutation observer will filter the first few message, but when the chat start to refresh from server, the task is delegated to the fetch interceptor. This has several effects: better performance without hitting the Youtube server, no more message/badge mixing, and for VOD, it will predict future messages.
- Profiles are renamed to preset to better convey how they should be used
- Reworked the interface. All presets related configuration are moved to their own tab
- Back to the 1 line compact interface for embedded ytcFilter
- Reduce storage usage per message.
Bug fixes:
- Fix regex for English tagged messages. Big thanks to NaGel.
- Fix slight size difference when opening popout with or without settings
- Fix possible case where ytcFilter may no longer load if you close a video before it had time loading
- Fix auto max height being too tall
- Potential fix for channel reordering when deleting a video archive
Bug fixes:
- Remove uneeded test files in release
Bug fixes:
- Due to how unpredictable storage usage has been for users, instead of migrating old messages, they are simply deleted.
- Prevent immediate reload when resizing popout
- Firefox only: Fix vuex-webextension library which failed to save the store in storage
- Single bootstraping at any time to avoid potential corruption of the store
I have reports of the extension needing history permission in 2.0.0 for Chrome. I don't know what happened but I have not requested history permission nor do I read it. Only tabs permission was added, and even this will be removed in this version.
Firefox version has rollbacked to 1.8.0 due to it being unable to keep its configuration after a restart of the browser. A fix will come at later date.
Bug fixes:
- Remove uneeded tabs permission
Bug fixes:
- New install on 2.0.0 were borked.
- Popout restore size
- Button sizing
New features
- New interface in popout window
- Default profiles for translation, languages, and staff
- English tagged messages
- Messages with Japanese characters
- Messages with alphanumeric characters
- Messages from staff
- Display archive and storage size usage
- Clear archive button in case storage is full
- Add a loading message in case ytcFilter doesn't load properly with a manual boot button
Improvements:
- UX
- Add several console.log message in order to help debugging
- Several part of ytcFilter have been rewritten
Known issues:
- Popout has not full feature parity with ytcFilter 1.8
- Screenshot is slow to process
If you are reading up to here; thanks for using ytcFilter.
The version 2.0.0 of ytcFilter will be a huge undertaking as numerous deep changes are planned to handle requested features, block spam, and better user experience. I hope I will be able to deliver it.
For now enjoy 1.8.0.
New features:
- Verified user filter with rendering
Improvements:
- Rewording and a little change for filter configuration
New features:
- Membership filter with rendering
- Super chat filter with rendering
- Session stats
- Message to remind that autoscrolling is needed in order for ytcFilter to work
Bugfixes:
- Removed extraneous tags like tooltips which could be displayed due to sanitazing
Bugfixes:
- Official support for popout chat. It was never tested with that before.
- Due to a browser limitation, limit storage length to 14 days for captured messages and filter list for a video. This is a temporary measure until some longer storage solution is defined or storage management.
- Add an automatic process to migrate old "default profile" to the new profile system.
New features:
- Import/export filters with copy/paste
- Multiple profile support
- Default profile per channel. Youtube only.
- Auto max height option
- Button to screenshot captured messages
Improvements:
- Support for Youtube studio interface. As a channel, it's referenced as "studio"
- CSS for links
- Max height is limited by the available space of the chat
- Added tooltips to explains the various buttons
- Added some code name for each minor version
Known issue:
- Default per channel does not work on embedded chat because we lack a channel ID for now.
New features:
- Message management bar: By clicking on on the timestamp, a new toolbar will be displayed
- Scroll to button: Scroll Youtube chat to display the message which was captured. Note that Youtube chat isn't infinite so the message may no longer be present.
- Delete message: Remove message from captured messages
- A link has been added to the Github wiki for help.
Improvements:
- Timestamps within Youtube chat are no longer needed for duplicate message management.
- Better styling when hovering a button.
Bugfixes:
- Limit size of emoji in captured messages
- Display the changelog properly on new version
Improvements:
- Emoji are now displayed in the captured messages.
Known issues:
- If ytcFilter's window is too big, the "Top chat" dropdown of Youtube may not render properly. No fixes were found for now.
Changes:
- Auto scroll is triggered only if the captured chat is at the bottom
- Redesign notification
New features:
- Filter by moderator
- Filter by owner
- Resizing option with a height slider
- Support for embedded chat outside of Youtube (i.e. Jetri)
- Changelog notification
- Remove default profile button
- Apply default profile button
- Auto open ytcFilter option. This settings is on a per video basis. Use the default profile to apply it to new videos.
Due to an unfortunate coincidence, the extension is now named ytcFilter.
New features:
- Scroll to top/bottom buttons
- Option to set a default profile which is automatically applied to new livechat
Code cleaning for Firefox approval process
Bugfix:
- Case sensitive didn't work
- Filter removal didn't save to storage
New features:
- Firefox support
- Text filter support
- Regex filter support
- Case sensitive filtering option
- Auto scroll option
Known issues:
- Duplication will happen if the extension is used both on the live stream and VOD
Initial release
Features:
- Filter by nickname
- Persistance between reload