If you are as annoyed by me that when you're looking for new audiobooks you see pages and pages of

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2024-07-10 02:00:04

If you are as annoyed by me that when you're looking for new audiobooks you see pages and pages of "Virtual Voice" narrations, then this is the add-on for you. When you're browsing audible.com this add-on looks through the search results and removes the ones which are "narrated" by a "Virtual Voice". This may result in a blank page of search results if the entire page was "narrated" by "Virtual Voice" titles. Just go on to the next page and see one or two actual audiobooks amongst the growing virtual horde.

At the time of this writing (March 2024) here is the sad state of affairs when trying to actually find an audiobook narrated by a human:

After installing the add-on: a search listings page where you can see the (1) actual human-narrated title, and the removal message to let you know the search results have been filtered:

Download at downloads/DevirtualizeAudible-ff-1.0.2.zip to try out in Developer mode. For Firefox, this means navigating to "about:debugging", clicking "This Firefox", and clicking "Load Temporary Add-on". (This has to be repeated each restart of Firefox until you download it from the official marketplace.)