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I'm using Hoverzoom+. It functions the same as Hoverzoom, but without the malware.
Github: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/
Chrome webstore: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hover-zoom%20/pccckmaobkjjboncdfnnofkonhgpceea

Here's how I ported it:

1. Submitted the Chrome .crx to https://www.extensiontest.com/ to check what I needed to fix.

2. Fixed their use of a deprecated API on line 1270 of main.js, by googling for the error message:

   "tabs.getSelected" is deprecated or unimplemented

3. Found https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/pull/301/commits/237be4e243acb7a1efcf45818f32fef1b1e2da09 , which made it clear what was the correct modern API to use.

4. Tested extension, worked flawlessly, so I submitted it to Firefox.

Let's hope they create an official version soon.

I've been using Hover Zoom+ for a while instead of Imagus: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hover-zoom/ However I just found out that this isn't the official Hover Zoom+, this one is: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hover-zoom-plus/ but it doesn't install for me (it says it's corrupted).

P.s. I know that the original Hover Zoom was full of ads, but both of those are from this fork: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom

The submitter of the Firefox version mentions their intention for their submission to be a stopgap until the author puts up an official version.

I would confine Firefox-specific bugs to comments on that issue until the author makes FF support official (if that ever happens). It looks like you posted on that issue already. You could try tagging stil in the comment to call their attention.

I've created hoverzoom+ as a spyware-free alternative. It now has diverged a little bit with more bug fixes and supported websites. It's open source too, available at https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/

You will find this github discussion very interesting https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

This is a very common sales pitch by people who try and buy popular chrome extensions from devs. First they try to low-ball, then they will offer some kind of cut of the profits to sell your user's data.

> I didn't mean to insult you, but you are asking 10k for something that you already have on Chrome for free. I don't understand you. You are not making money out of that extension so why not sell it for any amount?!

Let's be clear. They want it because it's popular, or they predict it could become popular very soon. The value is not in the idea, it's that you have the user numbers. Those numbers are the intrinsic value. Perhaps you don't want to sell it because you value your user's privacy. Something you can't guarantee when you hand that data over to some rando third party. Or why would you hand your hard work over to someone who will then effortlessly make money from it? Of course they can copy, but once again, they don't have your existing community, so their copy is worthless.

> You have bots that are on a quarter million servers. These are wholly and totally unregulated, could be ran by anyone, could be transferred to anyone, could be used for literally any purpose and the people running them have no clue what's going on in the background.

I think this is a pretty key point. Think of all of the unscrupulous ways that browser extensions can be monetized. Imagine someone offering money to a Discord bot developer to give them statistics on which games are discussed most frequently in channels that the bot operates in.

Maybe this approach could work for fixing Gfycat 404s?

https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/commit/1cf77b3c40cb4981c6d1b9be7ae571dae319496e

If a certain video is not found on Gfycat, it falls back to Redgif API.

I am glad to hear you managed to figure out what's wrong and were able to find a solution/workaround.

https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/issues/620

Please check this one out, and contribute if you can.
My guess would be that hoverzoom is caching some type of data in the chat (I am thinking of user profiles or custom emojis), and as the chat expands these data gets accumulated. It doesn't release any data because you are capable of returning to any previous part of the chat and it wants to be prepared for every image.
It is labeled as "can't reproduce", but I think the guy trying it just wasn't patient enough.

The guy reporting it solved it via blacklisting "chat.google.com". It may help you use the extension on other places of youtube, if you care.

Re: Hover extensions no longer working New postby longhairfish on Wed Dec 04, 2019 11:11 am

This extension stopped working because we had to move all of the pictures to a new domain.

The Author of this extension gives you the ability to report a bug if you want to.

You will need a github.com account to report the issue. But someone has already done that.

You can report the bug if you wish.

https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/issues

Tell him imagefap changed domains.

OLD : imagefapusercontent.com and x.fap.to

NEW : cdn.imagefap.com

If this guy still maintains the extension he will know the changes we made pretty quickly because imagefap is indeed on his list of sites. User avatar longhairfish Site Admin

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Hover Zoom also helps quite a bit. Although I'm a Reddit poweruser, I've never felt the need to use many of RES's features. I also made a Chrome extension that helps manage tabs.

^^Where ^^do ^^I ^^get ^^Rize ^^Enhancement ^^Suite?

Oh wow, I wrote Hover Zoom off years ago when the adware kerfuffle happened. I am glad to see that it was resolved. Thanks for posting.

Edit since there has been some interest in this post: I am now using Hover Zoom+ since its code is way more easily available on GitHub and it is definitely active to boot.

FetLife updated their image links to fetX.fetlife.com (0, 1, 2, etc).

I'm not familiar with Imagus (dug into it to see if they had working FetLife support). Ended up making this patch for Hover Zoom to fix their support, which might help someone familiar with Imagus add something to the Sieve: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/compare/master...iambic9:patch-1

The only way to really prove it is to either use a packet logger, or read through the source

Besides, even if they're not actively tracking you right now, they've already proven that they have no problem with sneaking in spyware without telling anyone. They really don't deserve any trust anymore, they burned that bridge long ago.

Edit: So I took a look through everything, and it appears that hoverzoom actually does respect that option. But the fact remains that they have destroyed any and all reason to trust them when they snuck spyware in the first time. Keep using HZ if you want to, but know that it's made by people who have no moral problems with selling your private data (like history and passwords) to advertisers without asking you or even telling you that they're doing it.

Those two people have enabled google analytics in their options and forgot about doing that. It's disabled by default, here's the code: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/blob/master/js/common.js#L29