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Opening a channel in a new tab turns into the new layout.

Open AccountMadeJustForThis opened this issue 4 years ago • 6 comments

Going to a channel without going into a new tab keeps the old layout, however.

AccountMadeJustForThis avatar Jul 08 '20 22:07 AccountMadeJustForThis

I just had this issue, switching the method from "User Agent" to "URL Rewrite" and back seems to be a temporary fix.

0ecd3e avatar Jul 09 '20 00:07 0ecd3e

I've circumvented this by installing https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/disable-polymer-youtube/ on top, since this extension doesn't add the "disable_polymer" line to the URL anymore - it adds double entries to the browser history again, but keeps the Polymer garbage away from channels and the subscription page.

spodermenpls avatar Jul 09 '20 13:07 spodermenpls

Doesn't work for me... I still see the new layout now.

MickCasanova avatar Jul 10 '20 02:07 MickCasanova

Yeah, I see the new layout too now. Might not be an easy fix anymore.

0ecd3e avatar Jul 10 '20 03:07 0ecd3e

Only "youtube.com" itself makes the new layout kick in on my end (which is no loss, since I don't visit Youtube's start page anyway), the rest is still sensitive to the "disable_polymer" URL or the Google crawler User Agent injected by Youtube Classic - so far.

spodermenpls avatar Jul 10 '20 12:07 spodermenpls

^ yeah the currently working method to get the old YT layout consists of using BOTH:

  1. spoofing your UserAgent as GoogleBot
  2. adding ?disable_polymer=1 to links as much as possible

I've written a couple of Redirector rules to deal with the second point, instructions here: https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/hoijz2/restoring_the_old_yt_prepolymer_layout_as_of/fxjyyqe/

WAZAAAAA0 avatar Jul 13 '20 16:07 WAZAAAAA0