YouTube new update: Ambient mode

[BobbyWibowo]

Hi there, it seems we're getting more and more "material-ish" updates to YouTube, and one of the recent changes seem to be dynamic backlight thingy

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9364930/199154708-cce99ff8-99a2-4882-95f3-ea10417f5ac4.mp4

(ignore the fps, it was some recording setting issue)

Unfortunately, some sections currently have fixed backgrounds with the userstyle active:

[BobbyWibowo]

If it hasn't shown for you, it seems it's a new option on the player, called "Ambient mode"

I bandaged mine with the following, but I'm not familiar enough with the rest of the styling to say if that won't cause any other issues:

ytd-watch-flexy[cinematics-enabled] [class*="ytd-watch-flexy"] {
    background-color: unset !important;
}

cinematics-enabled attribute will still be there even after manually toggling ambient mode to off from the player's settings So I guess it can only be used as a simple indicator, as to whether the player already has the feature or not, regardless of the actual enabled state

Anyways, good enough for me as a personal bandage 🏃‍♂️

[RaitaroH]

As I am testing youtube in light mode (to spot any issues) I didn't have this. It seems it only shows up if after I enable dark theme in youtube.

Anyhow, this is better on my end:

    #cinematics.ytd-watch-flexy
    {
        display: none !important;
    }

I am not sure if I should just remove this entirely... or add a toggle for those who would want to keep it. Any thoughts? It actually looks awful and would need quite a bit of work to fix. Will disable.

[RaitaroH]

@BobbyWibowo check out the latest version and see if anything else is broken. I have also fixed sub,join and like buttons. Also cookie consent page.

[BobbyWibowo]

I am not sure if I should just remove this entirely... or add a toggle for those who would want to keep it. Any thoughts?

I personally would want to keep it, considering it's already toggle-able by users from the player settings either way But yeah that said I can't really speak for everybody about that

It actually looks awful and would need quite a bit of work to fix. Will disable.

Correct I forgot to mention that it also required me enforcing --main-background variable to #0f0f0f, the plain background the ambient mode seemingly expects the YouTube page to be at, for it to blend perfectly I have no idea if it's even possible to change that, but it wasn't too different to stock DeepDark's background for me to be bothered about, so I settled with just changing it, haha

On that note, for reasons that I wasn't clear about, it seems the following custom color settings did not appear to work on my end?

Screenshot


Had to settle with just adding a new custom style instead

I have also fixed sub,join and like buttons. Also cookie consent page.

Appreciate the updates! I can't find anything else going funky due to the YouTube updates thus far But I don't usually stray too far from video pages and all that

[RaitaroH]

On that note, for reasons that I wasn't clear about, it seems the following custom color settings did not appear to work on my end?

You have to pick "Custom" preset first, then change those colors. Perhaps a bit confusing, but that is how it is implemented.

In regards to ambient, I will just keep it disabled.

Thank you for opening this issue and providing information.