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🐞Time remaining left on video, no longer showing after new youtube changes
Concise Description
It used to show the time left in the video and that has disappeared or bugged since Youtube shoved this new stupid update out.
Browser/s
No response
Other Browser:
Firefox 145.0esr
'Steps to reproduce' - Which of our features is required for the bug to happen?
enable time left in video go to video
Since when?
Possibly since Youtube had an update. I just noticed today.
Does the bug still happen when you log out of YouTube?
None
..No? Then please paste your yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS. Twice (With the error & Without)
No response
Are any errors or related log-messages shown in the Browser-Console? (F12)
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/id. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). Status code: (null). TypeError: can't access property "addEventListener", searchButton is null general.js:568:4 Uncaught TypeError: can't access property "addEventListener", e.detail is null y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH3zvmNcxIs:1 cZ https://www.youtube.com/s//ytmainappweb//js/k=ytmainappweb.kevlar_base.en_US.P8uo_JeY0QI.es5.O/am=AAAAEACA/d=0/br=1/rs=AGKMywHbfwAjgFiCWO4qtlWOoAZ2Myj5ww:2492 U4 https://www.youtube.com/s//ytmainappweb//js/k=ytmainappweb.kevlar_base.en_US.P8uo_JeY0QI.es5.O/am=AAAAEACA/d=0/br=1/rs=AGKMywHbfwAjgFiCWO4qtlWOoAZ2Myj5ww:1156 cZ https://www.youtube.com/s//ytmainappweb//js/k=ytmainappweb.kevlar_base.en_US.P8uo_JeY0QI.es5.O/am=AAAAEACA/d=0/br=1/rs=AGKMywHbfwAjgFiCWO4qtlWOoAZ2Myj5ww:2492 update https://www.youtube.com/s//ytmainappweb//js/k=ytmainappweb.kevlar_base.en_US.P8uo_JeY0QI.es5.O/am=AAAAEACA/d=0/br=1/rs=AGKMywHbfwAjgFiCWO4qtlWOoAZ2Myj5ww:13837 watch:1:4130 Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/id. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). Status code: (null). Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/id. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). Status code: (null). Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/id. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). Status code: (null).
Tested as the only active extension? (incognito mode or another browser users):
Nope cause I know Youtube did it. It was working fine before.
Expected preferred behavior:
show the remaining time left on an active video
ImprovedTube Version
latest
Your Settings (From the Extension's ⋮-Hamburger menu > Settings > Backup & reset > Export settings)
OS / Device:
Windows 10 22H2
Just came here to make the same bug report. When the "Show video remaining duration" option under "Appearance > Player" is enabled, the player fails to display timestamps. I've observed this in both Firefox and Chrome.
With the option disabled: https://i.imgur.com/EqTimaX.png
And with it enabled: https://i.imgur.com/DO3Cu8K.png
Note the bottom-left corner, where the first image shows the timestamp but the second does not.
(Additionally, clicking on the chapter title next to the timestamp doesn't work, but I can't figure out why, even with the extension disabled.)
Same issue here, using Brave 1.84.141 - enabling the "show remaining duration" option consistently makes the elapsed and total time disappear, and disabling it consistently makes them show up again.
Same here, I bet YouTube is doing stuff in the background, trying to block adblockers, updated some code and broke it
YouTube has been updating the player UI. They recently changed the time display on the player to be clickable like a button. It will now show the time remaining if you click the time display, like on mobile YouTube. That's likely the breaking change.
YouTube has been updating the player UI. They recently changed the time display on the player to be clickable like a button. It will now show the time remaining if you click the time display, like on mobile YouTube. That's likely the breaking change.
That doesn't work for me though.
YouTube has been updating the player UI. They recently changed the time display on the player to be clickable like a button. It will now show the time remaining if you click the time display, like on mobile YouTube. That's likely the breaking change.
That doesn't work for me though.
You need to turn off the extension to see the pure YouTube functionality. Also, I have premium, so maybe I'm seeing additional features. There is always that chance.
I don't want pure Youtube functionality. I want my extension to work right.
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YouTube has been updating the player UI. They recently changed the time display on the player to be clickable like a button. It will now show the time remaining if you click the time display, like on mobile YouTube. That's likely the breaking change.
That doesn't work for me though.
You need to turn off the extension to see the pure YouTube functionality. Also, I have premium, so maybe I'm seeing additional features. There is always that chance.
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Yes, we all wish the extension was working. But it's not due to changes from YouTube. I'm just attempting to find a root cause for the break. No one is saying to turn it off. At the same time, the time display is completely broken. If the extension is enabled, the time doesn't even show right now. And I'm just positing it is likely because the way the time is displayed on the player has fundamentally changed, which has probably broken the extension functionality as the injected code from the extension no longer applies to the current construction of YouTube post changes where the time display now is a button on regular, non-extentioned YouTube.
Yes, we all wish the extension was working. But it's not due to changes from YouTube. I'm just attempting to find a root cause for the break. No one is saying to turn it off. At the same time, the time display is completely broken. If the extension is enabled, the time doesn't even show right now. And I'm just positing it is likely because the way the time is displayed on the player has fundamentally changed, which has probably broken the extension functionality as the injected code from the extension no longer applies to the current construction of YouTube post changes where the time display now is a button on regular, non-extentioned YouTube.
My time display isn't broken for the video, only for the remaining time.
The root cause is Youtube changing stuff when it wasn't necessary.
Not sure if this helps at all, but with the extension enabled, display: none !important is added to the .ytp-time-contents element, every second or so. If I untick this style in the DOM inspector, it is re-ticked almost immediately.
With the extension disabled, this manipulation no longer happens.
Behaviour seems to come from https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/blob/17f686bbc379b2f9ae8ccaa3f62b0fb50f28c857/js%26css/web-accessible/www.youtube.com/appearance.js#L165, which exists in the function ImprovedTube.playerRemainingDuration() and is called from...
- https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/blob/master/js%26css/web-accessible/functions.js#L438
- https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/blob/master/js%26css/web-accessible/core.js#L451
I have no experience with coding this extension, so I could be misreading this but, further down, there is https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/blob/17f686bbc379b2f9ae8ccaa3f62b0fb50f28c857/js%26css/web-accessible/www.youtube.com/appearance.js#L173
This appears to be trying to add the custom time element to an already-existing <span> directly under the .ytp-time-display element but, for me†, there is no initial span here, just a div.ytp-time-wrapper. Perhaps the span.ytp-time-remaining element the extension creates should be added directly to .ytp-time-display (or to its first visible child)?
If I manually add a <span class="ytp-time-remaining-duration"> to div.ytp-time-wrapper using the DOM inspector, it updates correctly (at least as far as I would expect it to) and is not hidden any more.
†(I note that I run with a lot of other extensions which may be altering the default markup, so what I have suggested might not apply in all cases.)
