Autoplay Off still have video playing in background

[jasonycw]

1. Bug Report:

• BUG: With Force Autoplay Off, when opening any YouTube page, the video still auto play while there is an overlay of the pause screen

Recording.2024-05-17.214333.mp4

• Browser: Chrome

• HOW: Force Autoplay Off and then open any youtube page

• Did YouTube change?

  • Or did our last update start the bug? Then Are any Browser errors shown? F12-key : console)
  • 

• Does the bug not happen when you log out of YouTube? Then please copy your experiment flags list with & without the error, so we can compare: Enter: ´yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS´ into the Browser console on youtube (F12-Key). (can also copy them from the html source(ctrl+U))

More:

• *Expected /preferred behavior: Video not auto play and only start playing when I click on it

• ImprovedTube Version: 4.933

• Tested alone without other YouTube extensions or in incognito mode? Yes

• My Settings:

  JSON

  {
  "add_scroll_to_top": false,
  "ads": "block_all",
  "below_player_loop": false,
  "below_player_pip": false,
  "below_player_screenshot": false,
  "chapters": false,
  "columns": false,
  "comments_sidebar": false,
  "comments_sidebar_scrollbars": false,
  "comments_sidebar_simple": false,
  "forced_theater_mode": true,
  "hide_playlist": false,
  "hide_shorts_remixing": false,
  "hide_sidebar": false,
  "how_long_ago_the_video_was_uploaded": true,
  "language": "en",
  "lastDarkTheme": "dark",
  "limit_page_width": true,
  "livechat": "normal",
  "mark_watched_videos": true,
  "no_page_margin": false,
  "player_ads": "block_all",
  "player_autoplay_disable": true,
  "player_crop_chapter_titles": false,
  "player_hd_thumbnail": true,
  "player_loudness_normalization": false,
  "player_quality": "highres",
  "related_videos": "normal",
  "sidebar_left": false,
  "theme": "dark",
  "theme_primary_color": [
      200,
      200,
      200
  ],
  "theme_text_color": [
      25,
      25,
      25
  ],
  "thumbnails_hide": false,
  "thumbnails_right": false,
  "track_watched_videos": true,
  "transcript": false,
  "youtube_home_page": "/feed/subscriptions"
  }

• OS: Windows 11

• Device: Desktop PC

[davisstu]

Yes, I am having this issue too on th elatest version of Chrome on MacOS, since the 4.933 update today. Skipping to a part of the video takes you there and clears the issue.

[raszpl]

Yes, 4.933 is bad :( #2272 (comment) . no idea why it was released :(

for a quick fix disable "Force Autoplay Off" or find 4.933_0\js&css\web-accessible\www.youtube.com\player.js on your disk and edit it replacing

		let player; let tries=0;
		(function waitForPlayer(){if(player=this.elements.player||videoElement.closest('#movie_player')){return;}
						else if(tries++<4){
							console.log("autoplayOff is waiting for ImprovedTube.elements.player or #movie_player");
							setTimeout(waitForPlayer,500);
						}else if(tries===4){console.error("resigning autoplayOff after 1.5s")}
		})()

with
const player = this.elements.player || videoElement.closest('#movie_player');

[limited-ninja]

This behaviour started with YouTube Shorts some months ago (don't watch them enough to have bothered reporting). Issue with regular YT videos started today for me: 5/17/2024
Video would load, play, then freeze on a "Play" button with audio continuing in the background. No input can stop audio or toggle video to play.
Disable "Force Autoplay Off" does not yield any [results]

Current Settings: improvedtube.json

Browser: Edge 124.0.2478.80
Windows 10 Pro
IYT version 4.933

*edit: How I know it's the ext causing issue: Disabled ext: OK

[ImprovedTube]

thanks for caring! @raszpl @jasonycw @limited-ninja.

Since Chrome Webstore newly (finally) introduced rollbacks, so that bugs can be undone quickly.

Still cant undo the next approval request, so always gotta bundle contributions until they are worth losing the option to update for the day