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🐞Theme being overwritten by YouTube

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Description

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Most of what's black here is usually a different color, based on the theme I use (Night). For some reason, YouTube just started replacing most of my chosen theme with their own Dark theme. When I switched it to Light, all of the black parts swapped to white (as expected for their Dark/Light themes). This just started happening in the last 10-15 minutes.

Browser/s

Firefox

Other Browser:

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'Steps to reproduce' - Which of our features is required for the bug to happen?

I don't know how this happened, it just happened out of nowhere.

Since when?

Approx. 2PM Central US Daylight Time

Does the bug still happen when you log out of YouTube?

None

..No? Then please paste your yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS. Twice (With the error & Without)

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Are any errors or related log-messages shown in the Browser-Console? (F12)

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Tested as the only active extension? (incognito mode or another browser users):

None

Expected preferred behavior:

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ImprovedTube Version

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Your Settings (From the Extension's -Hamburger menu > Settings > Backup & reset > Export settings)

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Your YouTube-Document

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OS / Device:

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue in Firefox on YouTube with the Night theme and the extension enabled, then compare the result with the extension disabled or YouTube set to Light. The issue provides no file, test, version, settings, console output, or reliable reproduction steps; done means the user's selected theme is no longer overwritten.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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