Tampermonkey
Tampermonkey is one of several userscript managers, closely related to Greasemonkey and Violentmonkey, which provides userscript support for browsers supporting web extension APIs. This includes Chromium-based browsers such as Chrome, Brave, Edge, etc. as well as Firefox.
We choose to use Tampermonkey as addon of choice when creating user scripts/styles as it's well-maintained. Many scripts are also uploaded to a site called Greasy Fork, which is dedicated to hosting a large searchable collection of such userscripts for websites. Users can upload their userscripts there. Of course, whilst there are many useful scripts there, the number of scripts is so vast it may be a little hard to find the wheat amongst the chaff! Once you've installed a userscript manager into your browser, you can (aside from writing your own) find userscripts on Greasy Fork and install them into your browser easily.
Below are links to some of our scripts for various sites that have generally been written to address certain issues or niggles with look and feel.
- YouTube - Disable Inline Playback ("Keep hovering to play")
Disables the Inline Playback feature ("keep hovering to play") on YouTube even when logged out.
- YouTube - Force five items per row
Forces five items per row in main/subscriptions feeds.
- Substack - dark-on-light
Applies a nice dark-on-light theme to Substack journals.
- React - remove spam banners along top of site
React - removes any real-estate-chomping spam banners along the top of the site's every page.
- YouTube - Remove YouTube shorts and noise from main page
YouTube - removes YouTube shorts and noise from the main page.
- YouTube - Remove YouTube shorts from subscriptions
YouTube - removes YouTube shorts from the subscriptions list.
- Namecheap - remove spam banners along top of site
Namecheap - removes any real-estate-chomping spam banners along the top of the site's every page.
