Compare Chrome extensions: vidIQ Vision for YouTube vs ForceCORS

Stats vidIQ Vision for YouTube vidIQ Vision for YouTube ForceCORS ForceCORS
User count 3,000,000+ 2,000+
Average rating 4.51 3.81
Rating count 9,733 16
Last updated 2024-04-23 2014-03-21
Size 6.32M 81.24K
Version 3.107.0 1.1
Short description
Uncover the secrets to success behind your favorite YouTube videos. Allows forcing Cross-Origin Resource Sharing headers on any desired URL; helpful when accessing remote services from a local host.
Full summary

Do you want to know how to get more YouTube views, or discover the secrets to success behind your favorite YouTube channels and videos? vidIQ Vision for Chrome is a suite of powerful tools that every creator need access to if they want to build their audience on YouTube.

Whether you’re a content creator, digital-first publisher, or a community or marketing manager you need to know:

  • What makes ‘Related Videos’ related?
  • How do videos get ranked in Search?
  • Where do ‘Recommended Videos’ come from?
  • What does good YouTube SEO look like?
  • How does social media fit into audience development?
  • What’s REALLY trending on YouTube
  • What content your audience is searching for
  • What content to double down on to get more YouTube views

vidIQ's free Chrome extension provides these answers! We give you unique and authentic optimization data that can dramatically improve your videos’ performance, subscriber engagement, and promotion opportunities. vidIQ comes with a range of awesome features including:

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ForceCORS is a Google Chrome extension which allows you to selectively apply CORS Headers to any web server responses you choose. This is extremely helpful when developing a web application that makes Ajax/XHR requests.

The extension requires you to specify the domains that you wish to monitor and allows you to explicitly define the headers to be added. This is preferable to completely disabling XHR security in your browser, which is a big security hole.

Regarding Permissions In order to allow you to append headers to ANY arbitrary location, this extension requires access to intercept ANY web request. However, by default the extension does NOT monitor any web traffic. Only URLs you specifically whitelist will be read by the extension, and only headers that YOU specify will be appended.

Note: Headers added by this extension will not appear in the DevTools "Network" panel due to a known Chrome bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=258064

This extension is open source under the MIT License and can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/chrisdeely/ForceCORS