Edit (3-2-2026):

Unfortunately the developer has decided to double down after what I said, I do appreciate his kindness in his reply, and I think what I originally said was worded harshly, so my apologies. 3$ a month isn't the worst? But it still rubs me the wrong way to take a once free and open source project and charge a monthly premium to use it instead of a different route like a donation goal, or something of the sort. I theorized in my original review that it sounds like he's making this extension a full time endeavor, and I think this is still the wrong way to go about it and it's soured my desire to use and recommend this extension. He assumes in his reply that I want to get around the paywall? Which, unfortunately was not the point of my review, my point was about the ethics of the situation. Thankfully there are other options out there.

My original review below:

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I decided to make an account to dunk on this extension's changes in particular, that's how bad this extension has fallen from grace. I had been using this extension for about a year now and had even started verbally recommending it to people who were looking to cut back on getting too deep in wasting time on youtube, I no longer do so. Charging a monthly premium for this is genuinely bonkers, this change made it appear as though my entire youtube page was messed up until I thought half the features of the extension were half-hazardly broken. I assumed this was typical google shenanigans until I opened the control panel for this extension, and noticed a little lock icon next to a lot of the features I was using, and then I saw youtube look normal with the corrections based on the features that were locked away. I rolled my eyes before remembering about a month ago there was a popup at the top of youtube (added by this extension) mentioning that the developer will be switching to a monthly model. I rolled my eyes, and closed it without reading further but mentally noting it. Well, about 3 days ago this change took place. And he didn't lock a little bit away, not even half the features. Bro decided to lock away almost every single feature of the plugin and demand a monthly subscription for what was once free.

You gotta sign in and make an account if you want to pay the monthly premium, so I don't even know how much it is. Didn't ask for donations, have a funding goal, or even just optionally implement a subscription model for newer features or early updates. Also I'm sorry to Mosaic, but there's no way to justify this, the developers comment doesn't even make sense. This is not the only way to keep development going, and if say, idk the dev decided this extension was his full time job... He should have opted to mention so, and asked for donations and had a funding goal, not whatever this is. This is how you turn people off to anything ever made, and piss off your entire user base. So in the meantime, instead of the developers lowkey sarcastic response to one of these recent reviews instead of unhook I recommend "LockedIn" (searchable as "lockedin yt" in the search bar made by Kartik (Mozilla doesn't allow links) instead of Unhook (which unfortunately hasn't been updated in 2 years). As silly as it sounds, I haven't been able to find many other extensions out there that fulfill this niche so if anyone else has any good recommendations, you should definitely put them in the reviews here. As for feedback to the developer? I hope you consider donation based funding goals and rollback this weird update you've pushed out. I hope this flood of recent negative reviews pushes you in a good direction. If you decide to roll back this update, and do ask for donations I'd gladly consider supporting you instead of you deciding to pull a fast one like this. Also, if you consider responding I have notifications on, I'd consider coming back to this plugin if you do rollback these changes and consider my advice.