Extension UX Not Showing

[justinormont]

Today the extension's UX on YouTube.com stopped rendering. Worked yesterday.

Nothing obvious in the console:

The PocketTube extension is correctly loaded into the page: Running:

• PocketTube v16.0.2
• Chrome v121.0.6167.85 w/ all cookies blocked on YouTube.com (only kept until the page is closed/reloaded)

Perhaps the DOM / classes / IDs changed and it can't locate which parts to modify? I do end up in random A/B test flights with each page load, but reloading doesn't help this time.

[justinormont]

I reloaded ~20 times. The extension UX shows about 1/8th of the time.

Until Google eventually blocked me which is a first with "GOOGLE_ABUSE_EXEMPTION" -- https://www.youtube.com/?google_abuse=GOOGLE_ABUSE_EXEMPTION%3DID%3D6a4c[REDACTED]xjA%3B+path%3D/%3B+domain%3Dgoogle.com%3B+expires%3DFri,+01-Mar-2024+01:52:50+GMT

Since I don't keep YouTube cookies, each reload is a semi-independent set of A/B test flights (e.g. only two columns of videos vs. three, or no videos at all just a "Try searching to get started\nStart watching videos to help us build a feed of videos you'll love." message).

[NabokD]

It's weird, maybe it's A/B tests, because I can't reproduce the behavior

[IngvarListard]

Obviously, this is because region restriction (ru region). There is a lot of code like below in source Just change region to Belarus for example like described here https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/87604?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop

[justinormont]

Mine is set to 'US'.

That said, I haven't seen this issue in a while, so I'm closing it.