You can disable it with the "inline playback" toggle here: https://www.youtube.com/account_playback If you don't happen to be in some or other test group, that is. No guarantees :) Absolutely maddening that feature.
Any way to disable if I don't have an account? Asking for a friend
Some custom stylesheets or javascript would make short work of it. Extensions like `tampermonkey` or `violentmonkey` could inject them.
Obvious but still: Only ever run code that you yourself have written, or scripts you have personally verified to be safe.
You can disable it with the "inline playback" toggle here: https://www.youtube.com/account_playback If you don't happen to be in some or other test group, that is. No guarantees :) Absolutely maddening that feature.
Oh god, those are the worst. Often you will be trying to watch the end of the video and you can't because they obscure text or other crucial images. Seriously, who at Youtube decided this was a good idea?
So if creators start tacking 30 seconds of black on the end of their videos will that avoid this issue?
If I remember correctly, this has been there for a while. You can disable it at [YourProfile] > Settings > Playback and performance > Turn OFF the "Inline Playback" Button. The weird thing is, this settings do not seem to stick when logging off and then in again. I remember setting this off few times.
I don't seem to have that option? https://p.mort.coffee/fLT.png I'm in Firefox, where the feature exists but looks a bit different. Maybe the setting only exists for Chrome. Fuck Google and their consistent clearly intentional anti-Firefox behavior. Google's websites are in general the worst when it comes to cross-browser compatibility.
Google's fight against Firefox isn't so visible on YouTube. I'd say it's mobile, Google Drive and their video calls.
Google does a lot of A/B testing and I'm surprised someone on HN wouldn't blame that first. I'm not ruling out that Google may have done that against Firefox though.
It's worth noting that YouTube's Polymer site was always very slow on Chrome too and it was never just about shadow DOM v0.