Videochat Extension

Release v1.6.1 (2022-11-25)

Added 2023-10-07 08:02:41 +0000 UTC

New automation setting: 'autoskip wrong country', hide cellular (mobile) internet geolocation data by default.

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What's new in Videochat Extension?

Added a new automation setting to auto-skip the wrong country.
Rolled back the experiment of showing mobile locations as CT.
You can return to the 'CT' logic in the geolocation settings.

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'Auto-skip wrong country' auto-skips the interlocutor if it is not from the country you need.

Video chat connects you with interlocutors from other countries if the chat cannot find the one you need quickly.

By enabling this feature in the settings, the extension will auto-skip people from 'wrong' countries (IP geolocation data not used).

Now, for interlocutors with mobile Internet, geolocation (CT) and time zone (TZ) are hidden by default.

Many video chat users use mobile Internet, but the IP geolocation accuracy of such networks is very low (10-20%).

Previously, only the time zone (TZ) was displayed for such networks, but this confused users.

A month and a half ago, the extension began to show by default the previously hidden data of the location of the mobile Internet in a separate "CT" section with a warning that the accuracy of such data is very low. In practice, it turned out that 'CT' confuses new users even more, so the difficult decision was made to hide both CT and TZ.

In the geolocation settings, you can return everything as it was. But we think that only the most accurate data should be displayed. There are some ideas on compensating for the lack of geolocation accuracy in the future, so stay tuned.