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Show HN: A Chrome extension to give you back control over short-form videos

Show HN: A Chrome extension to give you back control over short-form videos

darajava

Comments (51)

  • varenc
    I have a simple bookmarklet does does something similar: javascript:(function(){document.querySelectorAll("video").forEach(((e,o)=>{console.log(`VideoFixer: Processing <video> #${o+1}:`,e),e.style.position="relative",e.style.zIndex="999999",e.controls=!0,e.style.pointerEvents="auto";const t=[],i=[];["disablePictureInPicture","disableRemotePlayback"].forEach((o=>{e.hasAttribute(o)&&(t.push(o),e.removeAttribute(o))})),e.hasAttribute("controlsList")&&(i.push(...e.getAttribute("controlsList").split(/\\s+/)),e.removeAttribute("controlsList")),t.length&&console.log(`VideoFixer: Removed attributes: ${t.join(", ")}`),i.length&&console.log(`VideoFixer: Removed controlsList restrictions: ${i.join(", ")}`),t.length||i.length||console.log("VideoFixer: No restrictions found to remove.")})),console.log("VideoFixer: All videos processed.");}()); It just re-enables all controls on all <video> elements and uses z-indexing to push them to the top. Works on instagram but needs to be re-ran for new video elements.
  • omoikane
    For youtube shorts, replacing the "shorts" in URL with "watch" will give you the usual interface, for example:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GqkmtcirwYA -> https://www.youtube.com/watch/GqkmtcirwYABut actually I see that seek bar is already available in youtube shorts. Maybe it's a recent change?
  • NelsonMinar
    It's horrible that the web has come to this, a need for a browser hack to restore the UI that some website hacked off.
  • uptown
    An answer to my wishes ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398696 thank you!
  • Aissen
    I wrote a set of uBo rules to do the same on TikTok. Not sure if they still work, but might as well publish it:tiktok.com##sharing-main-video-el:watch-attr(controlslist):remove-attr(controlslist)It seems a bit flakey on mobile, but it was a nice addition to the other enhancements. I haven't been able to make the mobile web as useful as the desktop web version, but didn't want to spend too much time on it either.
  • Zak
    That looks pretty useful. A Firefox release would be most appreciated.
  • ensignavenger
    Thanks for releasing it! Whats the chance of this getting shipped to Firefox users? A future improvement might be to add the ability to change the playback speed :)
  • haberdasher
  • robgibbons
    Thanks for this. I've thought about building this exact thing ever since this vicious trend began.
  • 4jck
    is there a way to "save" a volume for instagram/youtube? i swear their volume is boosted to 200% volume
  • megadata
    I haven't tried this out but if it works it's one the biggest bang for the buck I've seen on HN. Thanks!
  • xnx
    Nice. Does this do more than the "Show Video Controls by Default" extension? https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/show-video-controls...
  • umvi
    Adding a progress bar back might cause people to just skip to the part they want to see instead of watching the whole thing again though, and I'm worried that might not be in the best interests of the content creator or advertisers.
  • devmtk
    Thank you for that. Helps a lot!
  • joshdavham
    Thanks for sharing! Also, would you mind adding a license to your gh repo?
  • 65
    Instant download. Works great. Perhaps on Instagram you can make it save the audio level when the video is muted? If I mute a video then scroll to the next one, the audio still plays. Otherwise, thanks for making this, it's something I've wanted for a long time.
  • mthoms
    For anyone looking: Safari has "Stop The Madness" which has something similar (and much more).
  • ranger_danger
    Been using this extension to turn shorts back into regular videos for years: https://github.com/raven0230/Remove-Youtube-ShortsThat way not only do you get the seek/pause controls back, but other stuff like volume, comments, keyboard shortcuts etc. now work as usual too.