Don't Make Me Watch

Keep ads from pausing when you switch to another tab

Don't Make Me Watch: Stop Ads Pausing

"Don't Make Me Watch" is a Chrome extension that disables the Page Visibility API, keeping ads playing even when you're not actively viewing the tab.

Extension stats

This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2022-06-29

Users: 2,000+

Rating: 4.33

Version: 2.0.0 (Last updated: 2018-05-29)

Creation date: 2018-05-29

Size: 16.62K

Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

I have not investigated why, but this addon breaks angular apps navigation (at least in dev mode). Looks like it uses some high level wrappers that breaks NgZone from running properly

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fires3as0n, 2022-04-25

worked for twitch tabs for a long time but stopped as of 5th march 2022

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NextLevelDevil, 2022-03-05

Really good, watching Instagram videos without any problem. Tks.

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Rafael Rossi, 2021-04-28

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Don't Make Me Watch requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
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Risk likelihood

We don't have sufficient data to confidently determine the risk likelihood of Don't Make Me Watch. Use it at your own risk.

Risk likelihood analysis details

Critical This extension is not longer available in the store

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