remove watched video ONLY from extenson database

sniklaus / youtube-watchmarker

a browser extension that keeps track of your YouTube watch history and marks videos that you have already watched

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remove watched video ONLY from extenson database #92

Closed nijazm closed 8 months ago

nijazm commented 1 year ago

I hate when I accidentally open some video, and when I want to remove it from extension database, it says that it is removing it from YouTube's history. And because I have slow Internet, it is so slow. A anyways do not have youtube history enabled. So I'd like it to skip that slow step. Or add it as additional option.

sniklaus commented 1 year ago

But the video will still likely be marked as watched on Youtube's side of things, and since the Youtube Watchmarker automatically adds everything that Youtube thinks has been watched back to the database the video would eventually be marked as watched again. Seems like removing it from Youtube's watch history is a requirement. :thinking:

nijazm commented 1 year ago

Well, not if we don't have enable youtube history in google account, and not enabled Mark a video as watched once it has the official Youtube watched badge. and Mark a video as watched once it appears in Youtube's watch history. At least if there would be advanced option to skip that step or skip button when it starts.

sniklaus commented 1 year ago

So if

"Mark a video as watched once it has the official Youtube watched badge" is disabled which is enabled by default, and
"Mark a video as watched once it appears in Youtube's watch history" is disabled which is enabled by default

and if a video is ought to be removed from the history per a user's request then

the video should not be tried to be remove from Youtube's watch history, but
the video should be removed from the browser's history still.

Seems like a very specific feature that may have limited use to the overall user base. I understand that it would be very useful to you, but every piece of logic that I add not only takes time adding it but also time to maintain. :thinking:

nijazm commented 1 year ago

Forgot to mention, Mark a video as watched once it appears in Youtube's watch history. is also disabled by me. Yes, very specific, but biggest issue to me is actually combination of slow Internet, and broken touchpad, so I sometimes easily open wrong video. But, not a big deal.

sniklaus commented 8 months ago

I will implement it as outlined in #116, thank you for your patience.