Great work & extinction! 50 PRs by @raszpl! 9 new contributors & Manifest3

New Contributors	🎈	@joaolscosta - #2100
@bart1998 - #2141	@ThomSipkens - #2147	@BoazStassar - #2151
@SanderDebets - #2149	@Viktor-3 - #2161	@ADTmux - #2176
@testunde - #2194	@PTheocharis - #2198	@Alpaczyk - #2212

• July 2024: Many extensions scheduled for extinction: let's assess what we can do

• Inspiring plans? #2251 ( crowd fixes, #1881, #1451, #1445, ... , ... )

• Thanks for the review! youtu.be/SLfff7Kw_Xc&t=18s @ChrisTitusTech (Btw it's meant to use while on YouTube to see changes. And somehow i couldn't post a comment🤣 Seems YouTube still has the bug to shadowban when editing/deleting/re-posting a comment repeatedly)

• You might notice a couple sweet new features & fixes. Fortunately so much happened, that i can't sum it up today.
  

Changelog: v4.780...v4.938
Update init.js indentation, formatting by @raszpl in #2106
themes Patch 5 by @raszpl in #2107
functions.js variable explicitly already declared in function name by @raszpl in #2108
satus.js formatting, fixing some variable declarations by @raszpl in #2122
background.js hideSubscribe only once by @raszpl in #2121
settings.js adding Disabled Language option by @raszpl in #2124
Update messages.json by @decimaldreamer in #2115
Turkish update and others messages modified by @unnamed-orbert in #2129
themes.js hopefully last time by @raszpl in #2133
themes.js never ending optimizations by @raszpl in #2134
Added an option to remove black bars in full screen mode by @bart1998 in #2141
Update styles.css --yt-searchbox-background -> --ytd-searchbox-backgr… by @raszpl in #2143
player.js formatting, eliminating global variable by @raszpl in #2140
Rename autoplay to reflect its real function by @raszpl in #2110
Update satus.css make shortcut keys readable in popup by @raszpl in #2145
Update styles.css corrected --yt-spec-text-primary-inverse by @raszpl in #2150
Update styles.css override subscribe button when not subscribed by @raszpl in #2148
satus.js redundant self variable, use native js default function para… by @raszpl in #2146
Add option to automatically disable captions in lyrics/karaoke videos #1235 by @ThomSipkens in #2147
Copied player settings from appearance/player to the player menu (Fix to Issue #2037) by @BoazStassar in #2151
Add Cinema Mode by @SanderDebets in #2149
Add new safari installing method by @dodieboy in #2158
Create build-safari-app.yml by @dodieboy in #2159
core.js changing Description mode duplicated buttons under the player by @raszpl in #2155
Fix issue 2044 by @Viktor-3 in #2161
Update player.js autoplayDisable rename by @raszpl in #2156
Update active-features.js show themes by @raszpl in #2169
Update satus.js limit writes to essential ones by @raszpl in #2167
Update themes.js normalizing, removing redundant data by @raszpl in #2170
Added Fix for buttons below the player by @ADTmux in #2176
Quick fix by @dodieboy in #2182
Fix Live Chat collapsing once storage loaded by @testunde in #2194
Updated Greek Translations by @PTheocharis in #2198
Update core.js limit localstorage writes to only essential ones by @raszpl in #2180
Update themes.js group property is only for component: 'radio' by @raszpl in #2209
Update satus.js extend .on listener to redirecting to elements like w… by @raszpl in #2210
Update search.js polish, bugs fixed, remember/restore last search query and position. by @raszpl in #2201
Update general.css stop scrollbar-color from overriding ::-webkit-scr… by @raszpl in #2214
Feature #300: Reduce quality when window loses focus (from pull request #2162) by @Alpaczyk in #2212
Update general.css selector typo by @raszpl in #2196
Update styles.css make desert theme search button icon visible by @raszpl in #2172
Update player.js fixed playerQualityWithoutFocus by @raszpl in #2218
Update player.js unmangle by @raszpl in #2221
Update themes.js 'ytd-masthead') no guaranteed to exists, fixes rando… by @raszpl in #2226
Update active-features.js search returns buttons now, skip those by @raszpl in #2231
functions.js click handler catch html5-video-container by @raszpl in #2177
Update player.js quick bodge fix for #2137 by @raszpl in #2242
Blocklist overhaul by @raszpl in #2244
Blocklist overhaul for testing by @raszpl in #2098
Update player.js slightly more readable autoplayDisable by @raszpl in #2157
Update satus.js correct Menu load timing problems #2160 by @raszpl in #2163
Update functions.js check channel page when calling blocklist(channel by @raszpl in #2246
Update themes.js no more cookie, no more [dark] dependence by @raszpl in #2174
Update themes.js ytd-masthead is handled by CSS now by @raszpl in #2247
Update skeleton.js move search: searchPosition: to search component by @raszpl in #2248
Update satus.js remember slider by @raszpl in #2249
Update satus.js missing blur listener makes empty search disappear on… by @raszpl in #2250
Update functions.js fix YT dark theme by @raszpl in #2253
unmangle/cleanup/simplifying. Ready. by @raszpl in #2256

pre-release

v4.8x

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Rasz_pl Release Nr.2

Great fixes & enhancements thanks to @raszpl! 🎆:
#2059 #2065 #2063 #2071 #2062 ( #2073 #2072 )
#2076 ( #2075 #2096 #2084 )
#2077 ( #2091 #2097 )
pending: #2098 #2085

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#2081 thanks to @PedroBT03 (Welcome!) (+pending: #2100)
#2039 thanks to @unnamed-orbert
#2034 Thanks to "echo_12"! (Japanese translation on Crowdin. Welcome!)
also welcome @Midhun134 #2024 @Amrani-Farouk-Hossam-Eddine @pojith

Please help us or other extensions migrate to manifest v3 these month.
As always, please help us find possible glitches.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Translation

• Google/spreadsheets/Multi-Translator
  • We can make a version loading all (our 400+) keys for one language at a time (import & export. Instead of all languages at once as demonstrated above. Chatgpt can help).
    • So this will be most&increasingly efficient for translators. Also: #1934. #1543
• Updated & completed Portugese translations thanks to @unnamed-orbert, who kept caring for several days!! And added all the missing/new things to our languages files and added the crowdin translator interface and added to Spanish, and so on
• Swahili (complete!) thanks to @onyangojerry
• If a translation isn't complete, we now consider all locales set in the browser in order.

New Features/Options:

• Disabling video previews (on hover) thanks to @ugackMiner53 (#1785)

• Allowing ads for small channels below 130000 subscribers or any amount thanks
  to @josephShokry - Also:

• Button to sync settings (if the browser-user is logged in elsewhere)

• Fix for our theme's color of description&links thanks to @PoorChameleon

• "Always repeat" can be enabled without showing the button

• Fix(sync) for the visual state of our two Repeat(loop)-Buttons thanks to @kjonathan024 (#1504)

• Comments in a sidebar without an extra sidebar (even on wide enough screens) thanks to @a1exanderklein (#1960)

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• Improvements for permanent speed
• Tidied our UI skeleton
• ...

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TYVM! @code-charity/contributors
Catching up with what's been missing for long can be more relevant, just possibly less shiny than totally new stuff.

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Fixes for www.youtube.com in windows below 1024px:

• Chat, thanks to @BogdanskiJ (#1905)
• Shorts comments
• Anything else? :D

matured project

...To be a top 1000 Github repo, you'd need ~22222 stars. (We need not achieve that). Yet our Github activity doesn't match our amount of users & with a little help by 0.0x% of the users, we could develope X times faster. So i feel guilty never having tried this harder. So to start something, the extension's menu home page shows the recent ~30 Feature requests.

• (Also always wondered why the others, who are busy with YouTube's JS (few people in the world) , don't team? - #1881 )

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• fixes: like/dislike shortcuts; day of the week; search bar focused on home page; blocking videos & channels by @Huhni

• @WongChoice added subtitles in screenshot name, optionally rendered in screenshots too!

• @DMCS20 updated/improved our Spanish. @Atesfahun tried to optimize / troubleshoot and @AbhinavGoel9 too.

• and people ask to be assigned to issues increasingly(!) So i regeret missing some of them for long (please feel free to assign somebody 'by default' each time that you watch an issue @code-charity/contributors (or least you can vote for the priority)

Thanks!

faster work! please test

Thanks: @MAZ01001 stayed amazing with complete/longsighted work! - @PG-257811 @asifurrahaman754 contributed repeatedly, even when i asked😮. Most enduring contributor these month: @D-Rekk. Thanks for bug reporting too! @Eyevou @Anoaxx. New contributors: @yashi-15 @JustEmo.

• some new litte features, several bugs
• a lot of optimization. (Our status.js is only for the UI for now, circumvented loading it for the rest @raszpl)
• the Popup player is nicer now (with playlist, no title bar, ...)
• Speed-watching: music exception finally works when clicking related videos (might be unlikely to be in a hurry but click random things).
  • yet technically this was complicated: to define Music relying on the meta tags (next to the category, title, description) as YouTube seems to only include meta tags in new tab/windows.
    • Thus ImprovedTube can query a random Invidious node (/ ArchiveTeamData) now (1kb vs 800kb. Only needed for related videos But now we can add smart /data features more easily. - Ideas / wishes?)
      • And Probably we should also already work with https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js? (and help them. if Sisyphos had twins, would they team or all do the same thing alone in different countries?)
  • chromewebstore/youtube-tags also fetches the 800kb (every time?) - So we can easily make this feature most efficently now (and/or hopefully the developer has a look)

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2 Month

• Pop-out Player considers & shows Playlists thanks to @MAZ01001
• Speed-watching music detection is finally mature / few enough false-positives thanks to @Eyevou finding several examples.
• a player button to toggle 100% player-height thanks to @D-Rekk
• a button to Copy transcripts (not published just yet)
• Search results lists in a new tab both thanks to @asifurrahaman754

As always, several bugs fixed, most notorious one: Playlist reverse (#1544) thanks to @chasevis

• Experimentally adding @dodieboy's lines for everyone, that prevent youtube's anti-ad-blocker alert (since october18), #1809 (comment), to figure out if how many of our multiplied uninstalls since oct18 come from confusion only
  • Misc: https://Improvedtube.com/uninstalled shows the latest issues now... (=better?)

2 weeks

New CSS: Related videos options: focus titles hide tabs only +hidden is no longer hiding anything else. (There's hide sidebar if you really will). Hide 'Shorts remixing this video'. Fix: blacklisted videos hardly take space. + Fixes for: Thumbnails to the right! , transcript on the left! , transcript: compact spacing, etc. + Channel default page: Any tab (about, channels, shorts, community)

+ attempted to fix ad-skipping. Needs testing - as i'm blind to most ads (unable to see even without blocking them) #1762

• & @Lauviah0622 came to care about improving ImprovedTube in all 57 language files
  And let's us remove shorts from the search results & home page

• & @Huhni fixed the "play-all"-button and blocking / blacklisting Channels, despite it was a riddle. (If we are lucky, this amount of effort & time also increases probability of repeating)

• & @KiloBravoBFE translated to Swedish
• & @mlcivilengineer fixed a bug with speed-watching vs. music & @Eyevou sounds determined to find any more
• & @TienTim uploaded to the AppStore once again. We ${\color{red}must}$ run an Apple VPS & automate the process for every extension, can't we?
• & @fharper notified today, that YouTube is experimenting with video details on the side🧐 (utilizing the right year old issue #1398 - just like he should and you should too!)

🦆 join us

Good work for you

• Optimization (Autoplay etc.)
• Speed-watching exceptions: Education (YouTube-Category) & Music (Works now. By category, whitelist, blacklist, duration & youtube music detection - using data is easy)
• Several fixes

🥰 Active longterm contributors: @dodieboy @raszpl 🥰
🥰 5 new contributors @jarrodsmeyers @Huhni @vinay-nb @Fulgar @masterghost2002
                             🥰 @D-Rekk made the youtube home page menu more tidy / foldable      ---➤

• Youtube changes made us update theater-mode twice.
  • Can't keep up with that alone always, but we are big enough, actually.
    • seamless automated updates / crowdsourcing ? ( #1740 (comment) )
    • Check the previous release-notes:
      • Incorporation

edit: Roll-out is done, 1x bug fixed.

+1 superb feature & serious volunteers!❤️‍🩹 (Where to register a non-profit?)

Our first release mostly done by recent community members only, already rolled-out to most users. A new type of heart-warming 🥺

• Thanks to @D-Rekk(, @jscongdon, ..), who kept bug-fixing & responding on Discord, after learning how understaffed the project is.
  • And D-Rekk made a great "comments on the side" #1697. This is brave (maybe our most laborious feature. Optimized on multiple systems) - Lets try it!
    • +We should split it into its components! Each makes a stand-alone feature)
• Thanks so much again to @raszpl, who is now a top3 contributor, trying to make more sense of the whole code & our library https://github.com/code-charity/SATUS & our open issues & future plans.
• Thanks to @HanzCEO, who enhanced / updated adskipping / adblocking & carried out the urgent PR after YouTube updated the player!
• Translators haven't been active & we need to update language files. Use locale.py (Could be enhanced: #678 + #1543 & Could have a spreadsheet with 100+ cols to help any extension using =GOOGLETRANSLATE() )
  • Thanks to @AC-Lover for adding Persian / Iranian & @PeterDaveHello for the update

Incorporation?

• We should have/hire a daily community moderator & daily developers. Including the newer projects & "History Manager".
• We should register a (simple) Non-Profit / Charity (for trust & transparency; donation-receipts; free advertisment from Google (, Facebook and other maybe) & potentially/increasingly public funding.)
  • What's the right way? (Irish Limited by Guarantee? British too? What are the alternatives?) ( @"Legal-Department" )

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Greetings! to the legendary @code-charity/contributors, @dodieboy, Victor, @davidofferman, @YePpHa