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rthaut / YouTubePopoutPlayer

This browser extension provides a simple way to open any YouTube video or playlist (including videos and playlists embedded in other sites/pages) in a configurable "popout" window which you can freely position and resize.
https://rthaut.github.io/YouTubePopoutPlayer/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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No Watch History when player opened from home page or subscription page #415

Open bcaplin83 opened 5 months ago

bcaplin83 commented 5 months ago

As the subject says.

I right click and go open video in pop-out player on any video on the homepage or my subscription page, the video doesn't get added to my watch history. Is this a bug or just the way it is?

I'd like my watch history to know what I've watched and haven't watched. I used to use Iridium for YouTube but its pop-out player was removed by the author, then I found this so I could stop going into every video first again.

rthaut commented 5 months ago

I don't think there is a way to change/control/fix this behavior.

The popout window is just the standard YouTube embedded player, so ultimately Google/YouTube has control over how that impacts your watch history.

There was a request to intentionally prevent videos in the popout player from being added to the watch history (#403), but I was never able to implement that request.