magnus-ISU
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2 years ago To provide more information, this is caused because the extension inserts the controls in a bad layer of divs. I fixed this in my firefox fork, without adding the proposed feature, by making it always put the speed bubble over the "includes paid promotion box".
It's in line 353 of inject.js in my pull request https://github.com/igrigorik/videospeed/pull/907/files which has been ignored for over a year now.
Seeing as my fork solves several issues recently commented on in here and these issues stay unfixed despite the refactoring efforts of igrigorik which leads me to believe he will never try to read it, I tried now to upload it to some chromium extension store, but it seems that is a nontrivial process; you have to pay $5 to do it for google which I will not do at the moment, Microsoft's process for the edge store wouldn't work for me, and Opera only lets you install their extensions on opera which is pretty stupid. Luckily you can download the extension file from mozilla and add it as a local extension, and it works on chrome without any issue; I'm using it on Brave when I want to use a chromium browser because I still like fast playback. As an aside, this kind of stupid stuff is why I don't typically use chromium browser in the first place
If you want I can give more detailed instructions for installing the fork if you are interested and cannot figure it out.
As for whether I think the proposed feature should be implemented, I'm unsure; currently, the extension only stores a small amount of preferences and this would mean it would be using a lot more storage probably; and I also know because I had to rewrite the whole thing that the current code for how settings are handled is actual trash. And most importantly, the real usability problem is fixed in another way - otherwise, complexity for features is a worthy tradeoff, as you'll find if you end up using the fork.
FedeCuci
I'm not sure if this would be possible to implement, but it would be useful if the controller location is rememebred for specific sites. For example, if I move the controller to the bottom left for Youtube, I'd like it to be there in that position again for the next time, but only for that speicific site. So if I move the controller on Youtube, it only remembers that position for Youtube, but if I move somewhere else on Netflix, it only remembers that position on Netflix. I think this would be useful because many videos on Youtube have the "Includes paid promotion" banner at the top left, which overlaps the controllers default location. Same goes for Netflix's "back arrow". I provided an image to show what I mean.
Youtube:
Netflix: