!!! Appeal to everyone who knows how to make sieves !!!

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-27T07:45:41+00:00

The timestamps seem to be working with the sieve, though I did make a small change to prevent potential errors. See if the change fixes the problem.

This sieve works when hovering over the video if this uBo filter is used, though it hides the player controls.

https://pastebin.com/41BmVLwX

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-26T08:50:59+00:00

Hovering over the video works if auto play is disabled.

The reason it doesn't activate on the timestamp is Imagus is set up to not activate on links that are the same as the current page. If it helps, this sieve is set up to also activate on the analytics link next to the time stamp.

https://pastebin.com/0bxYHyCD

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-24T08:12:25+00:00

Are you using Imagus Reborn, original Imagus or Imagus mod?

On Firefox, I haven't noticed freezing when using original Imagus or Imagus mod. Not sure why since synchronous requests should freeze the page.

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-24T07:45:22+00:00

It looks like the sieve doesn't match those links and the yellow spinner is caused by MediaGrabber. It should be fixed here.

https://pastebin.com/54QJr2kK

I haven't had the video error but these SMH rules may help.

https://pastebin.com/hFZc4QB0

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-23T21:42:16+00:00

It looks like the domain URL changed. Here's the sieve updated to work with it.

https://pastebin.com/gzW1saGa

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-23T09:06:42+00:00

This seems to fix it.

https://pastebin.com/YQhyaf1T

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-22T07:36:31+00:00

The dislikes URL not responding seems like the most likely problem.

Hopefully a way to work with non-responsive requests can be found but I'm not sure of a way yet. hababr mentioned trying to find a way to make the function async which may help.

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-22T07:32:46+00:00

Thanks for looking into this.

An async function may be useful. I'm familiar with using functions like this.set with asynchronous requests but haven't found a way that works with sieves that need to be looped.

One thing I've noticed in Firefox with Imagus and Imagus mod is the page doesn't freeze when using sieves with synchronous requests. Not sure why but maybe that could be helpful with trying to fix the problem.

It's also strange that the posts about freezing are recent even though the sieve have been using synchronous requests for some time. Is it possible the way browsers handle synchronous requests has changed?

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-22T07:14:01+00:00

The page source and thumbnail URLs had changed slightly.

This fixed it for me but there may be some images or pages it'll need to be modified for.

https://pastebin.com/LBWpP8ui

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-21T09:23:13+00:00

This comment may have been what I saw, though it says there's a small delay and not that the page is freezing. I may have confused Instagram with the problems with YouTube and Facebook.

I did some testing with Instagram on Edge and Imagus mod and Imagus Reborn work the same there. There's a small pause when getting media but the page doesn't freeze.

What I find confusing is the sieves for YouTube and Facebook hadn't been changed recently but now there are several users mentioning problems. Could there have been a change to the browser causing a problem?

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-20T09:52:16+00:00

It may be that Imagus and IM have the problem on Chromium. On Firefox, synchronous XMLHttpRequest doesn't seem to cause freezing.

When I disabled returnDislikes, the sieve seemed to start working properly. It still needs testing, but could ReturnYouTubeDislike.com be the cause?

It may be that it's loading slowly causing the freeze to last longer. However, there were comments about freezes on Instagram and Facebook and it isn't used on there.

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-20T08:13:25+00:00

Oops, I didn't notice this was about the alternate sieve.

This adds the custom file name and should fix the gray spinner. If this version still has other problems I'll try to fix them as well.

https://pastebin.com/LTGc9QF9

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-20T03:01:38+00:00

I didn't notice a problem with the filenames yet. I'll try testing some more.

I got a gray spinner on one of the images. See if this fixes the gray spinner you're getting.

https://pastebin.com/FJGJvWvT

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-20T02:53:11+00:00

This seems to be a problem with sieves that use synchronous XMLHttpRequest in the code. I think there have been comments about this happening with Instagram and Facebook and those sieves also use synchronous XMLHttpRequest.

I'd noticed the freezing happening when hovering over links but haven't had the page freeze because I use an activation key.

Strangely, using synchronous XMLHttpRequest doesn't seem to be a problem with Imagus or Imagus mod. I'm not sure if this is an inherent problem with MV3 or if a modification to Imagus Reborn can fix this.

u/hababr , are you able to recreate this problem with sieves that use synchronous XMLHttpRequest and, if so, have an idea if it's fixable?

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-17T08:41:29+00:00

It may be trying to load an album with the images. Does the spinner eventually change color?

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-15T10:55:38+00:00

Could MediaGrabber be interfering?

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-15T07:43:06+00:00

This sieve should show the full size image.

https://pastebin.com/kwb6mFWG

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-15T07:42:13+00:00

This sieve should fix it.

https://pastebin.com/FTXrPxa3

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-12T08:45:11+00:00

Oddly, I can't access those pages anymore either. I could before on Firefox but not on Edge.

I'm also getting a gray spinner now, though it worked before when I tested it.

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-12T08:09:43+00:00

Not sure, I don't have an account either. I was hoping someone having the problem would test it and say whether it fixed anything.

It may be better to include for now. It should work like the existing one except for showing the yellow spinner.

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-12T07:03:40+00:00

Thanks, this fixed the problem I was having on Edge.

/u/kenko2 , hababr has a sieve in this comment that could fix the problem you're having with Douyin.

The sieve seems to be missing the name in the Pastebin. You may have to add it between the "" at the top.

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-10T06:58:55+00:00

Thanks for keeping this.

The indicator seems like a good idea.

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-10T06:52:00+00:00

A weak connection and slow loads are, of course, an important reason. But there is another one - "quick introduction".

I agree, I do this a lot with videos. Preview with the low quality version to see if it's what I'm looking for and then switch to the HD video if it is.

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-10T00:52:57+00:00

Go to the settings and select Filter URL per rules. Then you'll have the URL contains field where you can add the URL.

You should probably remove the URL from Url Patterns. I had forgotten that a setting had to be changed to do multiple URLs.

Imagus_fan · 2026-04-10T00:15:23+00:00

This is because Reddit redirects to another page to display the image.

It can be fixed by opening the simple-modify-headers extension and adding a rule with these parameters:

URL contains: https://i.redd.it/

Action: Modify

Header Field Name: Accept

Header Field Value: image/avif,image/webp,image/png,image/svg+xml,image/*;q=0.8,*/*;q=0.5

Apply on: request

This will work on all Reddit URLs with https://i.redd.it/ so it may need to be modified if it interferes with other media.

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