New Subscriptions page seems to break the addon

[bertvandepoel]

It seems YouTube has a new Subscriptions page (or is testing on me). I now see bigger thumbnails and shorts seem to escape the marvellous addon you've created.

I'm not sure if this is a universal issue or I'm just getting some A/B testing done by YouTube/Google, but if I can help test something, please let me know!

[doma-itachi]

hmmm... It appears to be probably the latter. I have confirmed that the block works correctly in both Chromium and Firefox versions. (Screenshot below) However, the behavior may be different between Japanese Youtube and overseas Youtube.

If you can show us the HTML of the surrounding area, we may be able to solve the problem.

[bertvandepoel]

Oh yeah, it seems your subscriptions page is still looking like the "old" look. I hope they decide they don't need to keep this new layout. In my opinion it isn't very efficient. I would rather go back to the layout you have :)

Does this screenshot help or do you need more HTML context than that?

[doma-itachi]

Thanks!! I tried to fix it with a simple code, but does it work? Youtube-shorts_block_v140.zip

( To run the zipped add-on, please refer to the following page ) https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/temporary-installation-in-firefox/

[bertvandepoel]

I'm afraid that doesn't seem to work (I made sure to disable the existing addon before loading the temporary one). I included a new source view screenshot just in case they maybe changed something!

Let me know if you need any further info :)

[gvirta]

I got the YT update a couple days ago and have been suffering with a shorts-laden subscription page all weekend. I'd love to make it go away like the before times. Anything I can do to help make this a reality I am willing to do up to and including providing dev console info and screenshots and possibly QA duties 😁

MAKE IT STOP

[elliotcm]

Hello all. I've also been served up this A/B test.

@doma-itachi Here is a patch to the code in your attached zip file which fixes this issue for me:

diff --git a/src/main.js b/src/main.js
index 8e9c825..fca9102 100644
--- a/src/main.js
+++ b/src/main.js
@@ -172,6 +172,13 @@ function removeShortVideo(){
     }
     del();

+    // Remove new-style shorts on subscriptions page
+    document.querySelectorAll("ytd-rich-item-renderer").forEach(element => {
+        if (element.querySelector("span[aria-label='Shorts']")) {
+            element.remove();
+        }
+    });
+
     //ショート関連のリールを非表示にする
     let reels=document.querySelectorAll("ytd-reel-shelf-renderer, ytm-reel-shelf-renderer");
     if(reels.length!=0){

Please make use of it as you wish :) Hopefully it helps others too.

It still leaves us with blank spots in the grid since Youtube in their wisdom are putting each row in a wrapper element like we're doing tables again.

[doma-itachi]

@elliotcm Thanks godness...!! @bertvandepoel @gvirta I have attached fixed zip(for firefox). Does it work correctly? Youtube-shorts_block_v140.zip

[gvirta]

@doma-itachi it is definitely blocking the shorts on the subscription page in Firefox; thank you to you and @elliotcm! I can confirm that the shorts leave an empty hole in the layout where they would normally be, but that is a huge improvement over the shorts-filled hole that they used to occupy.

[doma-itachi]

Currently, the new layout is not applied to Youtube in Japan. I tried to debug the new layout using regional settings, VPN, etc. to fix the blank issue, but could not change the layout in any way. Therefore, I am going to submit the code as it is once and for all. If anyone can fix it, please send me a pull request.

[elliotcm]

Fixing that would require shifting all the other videos around between row wrappers. Doable, but seems like more effort than a quick fix.

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Currently, the new layout is not applied to Youtube in Japan. I tried to debug the new layout using regional settings, VPN, etc. to fix the blank issue, but could not change the layout in any way. Therefore, I am going to submit the code as it is once and for all. If anyone can fix it, please send me a pull request.

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[bertvandepoel]

I can confirm that this works very well. I hope it will land on AMO (addons.mozilla.org) soon! If someone wants to add some javascript to readjust the rows that would be even better of course, but this is already great :)

[OshidaBCF]

Fixing that would require shifting all the other videos around between row wrappers. Doable, but seems like more effort than a quick fix.

it isn't a simple "list" of video that automatically wrap around the screen ?

[elliotcm]

That would be the sensible way to do it, but no they have row elements with 3 videos in each. I assume so they can do things like insert rows of shorts or rows of other random garbage easily.

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it isn't a simple "list" of video that automatically wrap around the screen ?

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[elliotcm]

Here's a row with a short removed, you can see the row elements are custom ytd-rich-grid-row elments:

Also how ridiculously big the thumbnails now are. Can only just fit two rows on a 13" screen.

[OshidaBCF]

Yeah i noticed that the rows are "dynamic".

The only possible fix would be that your script hide the list, and show a custom one with only videos, that's annoying.

[bertvandepoel]

Oh you guys see 3 videos in a row? For me it's 4. I agree the thumbnails are waaaaaay too large. I'm hoping that someone makes an addon that makes them smaller. I want to be able to see 16 or 20 thumbnails at the same time at least on my 1920x1200 27 inch (I think) screens. Right now I'm just doing way too much scrolling. But I'm already really happy that we can hide the Shorts :)

[OshidaBCF]

it was completely fine yesterday for me, but i guess they updated the layout overnight and now i hate it

For me i have 4 vids per row, but if i hide the shots i have 2 or 3 video only, and it's wayyyy to big

google why

[bertvandepoel]

The update has landed on AMO and my browser has updated. Thank you very much @doma-itachi :D

I'm closing this issue for now. If someone wants to work on the videos per row issue (please do!) then I suggest they maybe file another issue and a PR, that's probably cleaner. Thanks for helping everyone!