December 31st, 2008

Slavix is a web service that brings additional features to web sites. Current version of the service enables comment blocking on Youtube web site. Support for other features and sites may be added in the future.

Supported web pages

  • Youtube’s video watching pages for any country (http://*.youtube.com/watch/*)

Current features

  • Blocking and unblocking comments.  If you block a comment, all comments by that person will appear hidden to you. Also, you will see how many other users of the service blocked comments by that person. (screen-shots of youtube’s commenting section below)
    Slavix OFF
    Slavix On
Method 1 - Best - (Requires Firefox)

Method 2 - (Requires Firefox)

Method 3 - (Requires modern web browser. Tested with Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer)

This method is an easy way to try the service without installing anything. It uses a bookmarklet to manually start the service. First drag Slavix bookmarklet to your browser’s links toolbar. When you visit a web page supported by Slavix click on the bookmarklet to manually start the service. The limitation of this method is that the service needs to be restarted every time you reload a web page.