AlienTube will not work when browsing within YouTube - Possible solution here

[kashinoda]

Absolutely fantastic extension but since YouTube changed how pages load within the site it doesn't work at all unless you hit refresh or visit from an external link.

There's actually a script that (for the most part) fixes this issue, could you implement it into AlienTube? https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/11576-youtube-link-fix-for-addons-scripts

With this running in TamperMonkey (Chrome Extension), AlienTube seems to work when normally browsing within the site.

It will not work when clicking videos from within a channel (via. 'Uploads'), I believe this is because the links are formatted differently.

Standard Link <a href="/watch?v=YQHsXMglC9A" class="yt-uix-sessionlink yt-uix-tile-link yt-ui-ellipsis yt-ui-ellipsis-2 spf-link " data-sessionlink="itct=CEYQ3DAYAiITCMKqq7WukMsCFRWRHAodIpQLbyj0JFIFdmlkZW8" title="Adele - Hello" rel="spf-prefetch" aria-describedby="description-id-555294" dir="ltr">Adele - Hello</a>

Link Within A Channel (i.e http://i.imgur.com/M03D7x9.jpg) <a class="yt-uix-sessionlink yt-uix-tile-link spf-link yt-ui-ellipsis yt-ui-ellipsis-2" dir="ltr" title="Adele - Hello" aria-describedby="description-id-403257" data-sessionlink="ei=FJ3NVsaqKY-IcqrJlaAB&amp;feature=c4-videos-u&amp;ved=CDsQvxsiEwjGhPPQrpDLAhUPhBwKHapkBRQomxw" href="/watch?v=YQHsXMglC9A">Adele - Hello</a>

Someone with some JavaScript know-how could probably edit the script above to fix this.

Also, if Auto-Play or Playlist automatically plays another video then you'll have to refresh before the script will work again.

[kashinoda]

Also, you may have issues replicating this issue as YouTube don't roll out the updates to everyone at the same time. This explains why some people are still using this without a hitch. My friends was working fine but he now experiences the same issue as of yesterday.

[Fastjur]

Can confirm, this issue is also affecting me. I searched youtube for video's of pewdiepie (to be 100% sure that it would be linked somewhere on reddit). Alientube doesn't seem to load the reddit comments.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Search for a video on YouTube (preferably a highly viewed one, to make sure it is posted somewhere on reddit)
2. Alientube will not load, it will only show google+ comments.
3. Refresth page, alientube will now load correctly

[RayBB]

I also would really like to see this fixed.

[LitDub]

I've been dealing with this for a year and just got around to trying to find a manual solution. This fix doesn't work for me. Has anyone found any other solution?

[AjaxGb]

Ah, didn't see this issue when I made Pull Request #197. It should completely fix this issue in one line of code. Basically, YouTube fires a custom event when it finishes doing its custom page-loading thing. We can just treat that event the same as a normal page-load event.