YouTube is on war with uBlock Origin. It detects the ad blocker and annoys you.
What could be a solution? In my case, stop using the web player. And use mpv instead.
But manually copying the URL and opening the mpv with it each time you want to play a video is a hassle. That's why there was someone who created a "Open in MPV" extension a long ago, but nowadays it's not available anymore because it's non-conformant to manifest V3 (I think).
I ain't a professional at creating web extensions so I asked another Google product (heh) Gemini to help me with it. It helped me through developing and debugging the extension and helping scripts.
I now share my Gist with you so that you could test this yourself. The installation is manual, I don't know if I'll actually publish this an extension to the store.
Tested on Linux and macOS. Windows test is coming soon.
YouTube is on war with uBlock Origin. It detects the ad blocker and annoys you.
What could be a solution? In my case, stop using the web player. And use mpv instead.
But manually copying the URL and opening the mpv with it each time you want to play a video is a hassle. That's why there was someone who created a "Open in MPV" extension a long ago, but nowadays it's not available anymore because it's non-conformant to manifest V3 (I think).
I ain't a professional at creating web extensions so I asked another Google product (heh) Gemini to help me with it. It helped me through developing and debugging the extension and helping scripts.
I now share my Gist with you so that you could test this yourself. The installation is manual, I don't know if I'll actually publish this an extension to the store.
Tested on Linux and macOS. Windows test is coming soon.
UPD: As @LitCast fairly [pointed out](https://www.reddit.com/r/mpv/comments/1l6gr0h/comment/mwomns...), you could just use [External Application Launcher](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/external-applicatio...) extension instead.