Tag Archives: Chrome

Yify fix — a Chrome plugin to prevent Yify popups

You may or may not have heard of Yify. It’s a torrent site. The latest address is yify.bz (at the time of writing, Jan 18th 2026).

It’s a great site, but extremely annoying. Every time you click somewhere on a page, a popup is spawned, which you have to close, and then you can re-click the original link.

I asked ChatGPT to create a Chrome plugin to fix this. It (mostly) works. The popups are prevented on first click, although sometimes you need to click again to open the link.

In any case, as a legal disclaimer, I’m not endorsing the website or piracy. If you want to install and use the plugin, feel free to give it a whirl. You’ll need to enter ‘Developer Mode’ to do that. Here is a guide:

https://bashvlas.com/blog/install-chrome-extension-in-developer-mode

Once you unzip the zip file, you can browse the contents and see a bunch of Javascript code dealing with popups and stuff. You can change the URL form “yts.bz” to something else if you need to in the sw.js file.

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Google Chrome extension to ensure the ‘Following’ tab in x.com (Twitter) remains selected

Twitter likes to play dirty tricks and deselect the ‘Following’ tab if you click on it. It seems to always rever to ‘For you’.

I’ve written a Google Chrome extension that ensures that the ‘Following tab’ is re-selected if it is not currently selected.

If you are using other tabs, this extension will be annoying to you since it will force ‘Following’ to be re-selected. Don’t use it.

You can download the extension here:

x-following-tabDownload

Instructions for use:

1. Download file
2. Unzip file to folder
3. Go to Exensions > Manage Extensions (or enter chrome://extensions/ in your address bar)
4. Make sure 'Developer Mode' is activated in the top-right corner
5. Click 'Load Unpacked' in the to-left corner and select the unpacked folder

The extension will now be automatically used whenever you visit x.com.

If you’re worried about the contents of the extension, open up content.js file. It’s the text file which contains the Javascript code. Very simple code with comments.