code-charity / code-charity/youtube
Add button to switch video page to embedded view
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- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
⚬ PROBLEM:
Currently with YouTube's little war on ad blockers they whine and block playback on the main video page, but not on embedded view.
⚬ SOLUTION:
It would be cool if there was an option to add a button somewhere that switched to embedded view.
⚬ ALTERNATIVES:
The alternative right now is just manually changing the URL from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
to
https://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID
⚬ RELEVANCE / SCOPE:
This would be good for anyone who isn't paying for YouTube Premium.
⚬ "SIDE EFFECTS":
I can't think of any side effects, basically only people paying for YouTube wouldn't need it and could be default off for sure.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files or tests are named. Start by locating the extension's YouTube video-page UI entry point and existing player controls, then trace how the current video URL is handled. Done means a user-facing control switches the current video from the standard watch URL to its embedded view without breaking normal navigation.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100