A simple extension for Chromium that fixes YouTube thumbnails in Russia.
YouTube's CDN yt3.ggpht.com
seems to be blocked by some Russian internet providers, so the channel thumbnails that rely on this specific CDN can't be loaded. This extension redirects all yt3.ggpht.com
requests to yt4.ggpht.com
which is basically the same thing.
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Download archive from the latest release
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Unpack it to a persistent folder, you won't be able to move it after the installation
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Go to
chrome://extensions
in your browser -
Turn on
Developer mode
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Click
Load unpacked
and select the recently unpackedyoutube-thumbnail-fix
folder