Like at % Watched not Working

[wisnoskij]

Expected Behavior Like the video at 50% watched during playback.

Actual Behavior Does not ever like the video unless I refresh the page after reaching the threshold

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behaviour:

1. Set the extension to like at any %.
2. Watch video
3. See that it is still unliked
4. Disabled extension and refresh, still unliked
5. Enable extension and refresh
6. See it is liked.

Specification

• OS: Fedora 35
• 98.0.2
• V3.4.2

[wisnoskij]

3.5.0 I got the issue to happen. If I remember correctly, it used to be reproducible with 100% accuracy after I figured out the trigger. It seems to be like 10-30% chance now, unless it is some issue to do with half loading the home page or some weird trick like that, I cannot reproduce the issue most times, but I just got it to happen twice. Maybe it is based on the order the mods are loaded in or something like that.

Addendum: Just shutdown FF and started it back up again like 10 times and could not get the issue again.

[RubenKelevra]

95% with which plugin version ?

I'm running right now the 3.5.0 The issue for the last 5% is SponsorBlock I think.

Just an educated guess, but I think this is going on:

• Auto Like waits for the time marked for x % to pass, which never happens, because
• Sponsor Block finds a advertisement and skips over this timemarker

The solution would be (in general for all types of skipping) to just count the watch time in the current tab, and if it's over x % a like will be sent.

This also avoids liking content where you just skip to a certain portion and doesn't watch the whole thing. :)

[Taknok]

@RubenKelevra The code is already doing this, meaning if you start a vidéo and immediately click to the end, the plugin should like the video. https://github.com/Taknok/youtube-auto-like/blob/e9043abc158fadf61c3f59bda89aa54732cf93a4/app/scripts/modules/liker-material.js#L235

The plugin get the current time of the vidso, meaning if you jump to 30min after 5s of playing the currentTime will be 30min.

I will look the behavior with sponsor block again and on a longer period, because I'm not using it personally.

[RubenKelevra]

Ah okay. No I don't think you have to worry about it then. It's just, that sometimes videos don't get liked and I just don't know why.

Regarding your current approach: I think it's better get the actual time the user plays back the video and only after x% of watch time compared to the length of the video it will get liked.

Meaning that if I for example open a video which is clickbait and I skip forward to the highlight portion of the video, it will be liked, despite that I only watched a couple of seconds of it.

Regarding Sponsor Block: Give the add-on a look, its great :)

[Taknok]

Even with sponsor block enabled to skip everything, I cannot reproduce the issue with more than 200 videos played :/

[Taknok]

If someone having this issue can look into the html code and the addon code. It will gladly help :/

[Taknok]

Is the issue fix with the new version of the addon ? (I will close in 7 days without answer, feel free to comment for re-opening it)

[wisnoskij]

I forgot to check this morning, but I have seen this issue since the new YT format and the extension update for it. I will try to remember to check specifically the next time I start my computer. The issue seemed unchanged.

[wisnoskij]

Turns out my first tab still had this issue ongoing, so I can absolutely state that this issue persists unchanged.

[Taknok]

Does 3.6.2 fix this issue ?

[wisnoskij]

Yes, I am fairly certain it is working for me now.

[Taknok]

Ok, I will wait one more week before closing it.

[RubenKelevra]

Hey @Taknok, I've noticed that it seems to be broken, still (or again?) (sometimes):

• So I use the following settings right now:

• SponsorBlock is running, and the video has the end-section skipped
• The video is originally 3:15, while it has only 2:55 playtime because of the skipped section at the end.
• I had the “autoplay next” feature enabled

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So it's a new tab, I've opened youtube.com, searched for a video, loaded it. SponsorBlock would skip the end and then “autoplay next” would just play the next video.

I did go “back” in the browser, and the video wasn't liked.

I tried reproducing it three times, but every time the video would be liked. So it's rare, that it's not working.

I'm running version 3.6.2.

[Taknok]

Hi, Can you activate the logs (guide https://youtu.be/C4fQXRYwbrs?t=68) and send it back here when you see the issue ? You just have to activate the log, use youtube normally, and when seeing the bug do ctrl + shift + K scroll to find the logs and paste here.

[wisnoskij]

Can confirm, just noticed a video not get liked 5 minutes ago. Enabled debug so if it happened again I will have logs.

[wisnoskij]

Hmm, yes seems different this time. The videos just don't ever get liked. I even tried instant like and it failed.

https://pastebin.com/CywpPUrj

Looks like they changed the button ids or something like that.

[Taknok]

Hi, I pushed a fix. Can you try the version on dev branch ? And tell me if the issue is fixed ? Guide: https://youtu.be/C4fQXRYwbrs?t=68

[wisnoskij]

Yes, I tested instant like for every video and it worked right off.

[Taknok]

The new version is sent to firefox for validation.

[Taknok]

Does the new version fix the issue ?

[wisnoskij]

Works for me.

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[Taknok]

Ok, I will close it in 1 week if no one says otherwise.

[JoelleEmmily]

Same issue

Uncaught (in promise) Error: creatorBlock is null 2 undefined

[Taknok]

Ok, it seems that a new youtube version is released as the script cannot grab the creator block. I will look into it.

[Taknok]

Is this issue still present on the new youtube grid version ?