Videochat Extension posts
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Universal Mode - the boring details: why it matters and how it works
A lot of technical info below, read it only if you are really care.It answers three questions:Why such a big change?What about security?Chromium warningWhy such a big change?Our main thing is to keep an eye on WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) traffic and show you where the IPs are coming from, so you know who your browser is chatting with. Everything else is just extra.Extensions have more power than regular websites, but they're still ke...
How to use Universal Mode
Universal Mode is the future of Videochat Extension.It can monitor your WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) activity.If necessary, it can operate at the browser level, ensuring that the website you want to monitor cannot detect that you are tracking WebRTC.1. Ensure that you installed the extension from Chrome Web Store:We are going to publish a microsoft edge version later.2. Now, click on the extension icon in the top right corner of your brow...
v3.0.0 - introducing Universal Mode, support for most Omegle-like and WebRTC-based sites
Yo! Big changes coming to the extension 👀After becoming a patron(7-day trial), check this post to try it RIGHT NOW!Free basic version will be available soon (worst case: January-February 2025).TL;DR:Chatruletka (aka ome.tv) doesn't want us around anymore (kinda rude tbh)We're making something WAY cooler that works with ANY video/audio siteWe're focusing on IP geolocation and WebRTC monitoring onlyIt's available TODAY but only f...
ome.tv temporarily disabled (v2.2.6)
On December 3, 2024, we received multiple complaints from users who reported being instantly banned on ome.tv-like sites.While the number of reports—~30 from a user base of ~200,000—is "not great, not terrible", the unusual nature of this situation required our attention.Although our team has been unable to reproduce the issue and it appears to affect only a minority of people, we still needed to do something.---UPD 2024-12-13:v3.0.0 ...
Videochat Extension Discontinues Firefox Add-On Support Due to Compatibility Issues
Hey, 1,177 Firefox users, we need to talk. It's likely that only a few of you will see this post, but I still need to share it to explain what's going on.Google Translate this postArabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swed...
Release v2.2.5 (2024-07-28)
Geolocation fixes.Google Translate this postArabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, VietnameseWhat's new in Videochat Extension?Fixed a bug where new data was not displayed after three locations with...
ome.tv attack (?) on Videochat Extension - status report for 2024-07 (July 2024)
Most of the information about the incident is already here, so I'll do my best not to repeat myself and save your time.What happened?An anonymous script flooded the channel used to transmit potential IP addresses for webrtc connections from the page to the extension with thousands of random IP addresses per each real one, resulting in thousands of geolocation requests and possible lags on the client side.Overall, over a billion useless reques...
ome.tv attacks (?) - Videochat Extension Release v2.2.4 (2024-07-25)
Improved geolocation stability amid issues on ome.tv.tl;dr:Between July 13, 2024, and July 28, 2024, Videochat Extension experienced a weird attack on our server infrastructure originating from the ome.tv side. It is still unclear whether this was intentional, as there are many forks in the wild, and no one has contacted us about it.Before version 2.2.4, the Videochat Extension ultimately trusted the web page. During certain hours between July 13...
How to report weird issues
Dear User, if you have encountered serious issues with the Videochat Extension, do not hesitate to let us know on Discordwith detailedinformationabout your problem!Maybe even record a video like in this example, showing what is happening!---If you want to remain anonymous, you can use an anonymous form, but PLEASE describe the problem in detail!We've seen some of your reports over the past 2 weeks, but they were mixed and confusing so did not...
Progress report for 2024-01 (January 2024)
What is this post about?At the end of each month, we publish a report for patrons on the status of the project and the work done that month.There is no guarantee that we will be able to spend much time on the project each month, but overall we hope that this will give more transparency to the people supporting the project.Progress Report for January 2023.This month we spent a total of 4 hours working on the project: Responding to server incident....
Progress report for 2023-12 (December 2023)
What is this post about?At the end of each month, we publish a report for patrons on the status of the project and the work done that month.There is no guarantee that we will be able to spend much time on the project each month, but overall we hope that this will give more transparency to the people supporting the project.Progress Report for December 2023.This month we spent a total of 14 hours working on the project, excluding time spent on user...
Videochat Extension - 2023 In Review
🎉 Year in Review: Celebrating a 2023 of Our Chrome (and Firefox) Extension 🎉As we bid farewell to another incredible year, we can't help but feel a sense of pride and gratitude for the journey we've embarked on together with our beloved Chrome extension. It has been a year filled with growth, innovation, and most importantly, the continuous support and feedback from our amazing users.Thanks to you, we managed to grow from 23,000 use...
Release v2.2.2 (2023-12-27)
Adapted to Coomeet Free changes.Google Translate this postArabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, VietnameseWhat's new in Videochat Extension? Adapted to minor changes on the freecm platform. Minor c...
Progress report for 2023-11 (November 2023)
What is this post about?At the end of each month, we publish a report for patrons on the status of the project and the work done that month.There is no guarantee that we will be able to spend much time on the project each month, but overall we hope that this will give more transparency to the people supporting the project.Progress Report for November 2023.This month we spent a total of 15 hours working on the project.Most of the time was spent re...
Release v2.2.1 (2023-11-10)
New automation feature: 'auto-stop after skip'.Google Translate this postArabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, VietnameseWhat's new in Videochat Extension? Added a new automation feature: &...
What you MUST know before switching from omegle to ome.tv
Here's a list of what we think you MUST know before switching from omegle to ome.tvGoogle Translate this postArabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese You must log in using your Facebook / V...
Release v2.2.0 (2023-11-09)
Omegle is dead.Google Translate this postArabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, VietnameseWhat's new in Videochat Extension? Added a message about the death of omegle. Redesigned post-install page. ...
Omegle is dead
Omegle has just announced that it is ceasing operations.Google Translate this postArabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, VietnameseWithout omegle there would be no ome.tv, chatroulette and dozens of oth...
Progress report for 2023-10 (October 2023)
What is this post about?At the end of each month, we publish a report for patrons on the status of the project and the work done that month.There is no guarantee that we will be able to spend much time on the project each month, but overall we hope that this will give more transparency to the people supporting the project.Progress Report for October 2023.This month we spent a total of 75 hours working on the project.This month I (qrlk) was the on...
We've switched to subscription billing
Patreon will now charge new patrons monthly on that same date you joined.Google Translate this postArabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, VietnameseSo, we have just made a slight change in how the Patre...
Release v2.1.0 (2023-10-10)
Reworked the changelog system.Google Translate this postArabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, VietnameseWhat's new in Videochat Extension? Reworked the changelog system towards simplification and s...
Release v2.0.0 (2023-09-07)
Patreon with improved geolocation for patrons. Transparent Roadmap based on user suggestions.Google Translate this postArabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, VietnameseWhat's new in Videochat Extens...
Release v1.9.0 (2023-08-23)
Better support for Omegle (work-in-progress), new geolocation features, minor fixes.Google Translate this postArabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, VietnameseWhat's new in Videochat Extension? Adde...
Release v1.8.2 (2023-07-20)
Urgent store listing update.Google Translate this postArabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, VietnameseWhat's new in Videochat Extension? Temporarily changed the name and description of the extensio...
Release v1.8.1 (2023-05-31)
Stability improvements.Google Translate this postArabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, VietnameseWhat's new in Videochat Extension? Fixed work on Chatruletka, Ome.tv, Minichat & Chatrulez when '...
Release v1.8.0 (2023-05-04)
Geolocation & streamer mode improvements.Google Translate this postArabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, VietnameseWhat's new in Videochat Extension? Significantly improved geolocation stability. Y...
Release v1.7.9 (2023-04-20)
Hint system, bug fixes, optimization.Google Translate this postArabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, VietnameseWhat's new in Videochat Extension? Implemented a hint system that displays informative...
Release v1.7.8 (2023-04-15)
Redesigned welcome screens.Google Translate this postArabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, VietnameseWhat's new in Videochat Extension? Reduced the amount of information displayed after installing ...
Release v1.7.7 (2023-04-14)
Our website & Discord server. Minor fixes.Google Translate this postArabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, VietnameseWhat's new in Videochat Extension? Launched a simple promo website. Redesigned ou...
Release v1.7.6 (2023-04-05)
Minor release.Google Translate this postArabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, VietnameseWhat's new in Videochat Extension? Downgraded sweetalert2 because of the protestware code.-----Information. D...
