This YouTube Playable Extension Will Slowly Drive Your Enemies Crazy
You may be out of luck if an annoying colleague is nearby. You know, the one that talks about how much he loves to eat quiche for breakfast. Let’s call him Chad. While you (probably) can’t put Chad’s headphones in jelly to get revenge on him for pinching his softball defeat to your ass last week, you can slowly drive Chad insane where he hurts most: his precious time. conducted on YouTube.
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To implement this trick, you need to install the Chrome Engine extension on your enemy’s computer. Since this is not an official Chrome extension, you will have to do it manually, so make sure they are not for lunch or a smoke break so you have enough time to get your revenge.
This sinister Chrome extension (also known as jerkface-chrome), which bears the rather harmless and seemingly beneficial name ” Chrome Engine” , slows down YouTube video playback by 1% every day when your office mate watches a YouTube video, and stops when it reaches 70.% of the original playback speed. This means that your coworker will endure 30 days of a slow but steady decrease in video speed and will probably wonder what’s going on with his computer (or, if you’re lucky, their mind).
Go to the Chrome Engine page and select the chrome-engine-pack.crx link. Click the “Raw” link in the middle of the page to download the extension (you’ll see it ends in the download bar at the bottom of your browser). Open a new tab and enter “chrome: // extensions” to go to the Chrome extensions page. Drag the downloaded extension onto the page and click Install. In the list of extensions, next to the address bar, you will see a tiny Chrome logo. Right-click it, choose Hide from the Chrome menu, and pat yourself on the back for a job well done.
Wherever they are it gets worse
If Chad decides to get sick and skip a few days, don’t worry. The expansion is smart enough to wait for their return, stopping the deceleration rate.
If your coworker is “sick at home” (probably enjoying Let’s Play videos with racist YouTube streamers from the comfort of their laptop), the Chrome Engine will stay in sync with their Google account while they’re logged into the Chrome browser. This means the reduced playback speed will follow them wherever their Chrome browser is.
The extension also compensates for user-selected playback speed settings. If your victim slows down the playback speed, it will slow down based on the playback speed updated by the extension. Eventually they will realize that something is wrong, but if you play in cold blood, they will never know that it was your hands. Let the gaslighting begin!