New:
- Option to disable scrollbar in super theater mode
- Ambient mode control
Fix:
- Shorts showing in search results when disabled
- Shorts showing in feed pages
- Blacklist not removing playlists from feed pages
- Video quality setting not looking for closest quality when the selected quality is not available

New
- Ability to disable shorts in video page sidebar suggestions
Fixes
- Video Upload Count not working
- Option to blacklist channel not showing
- Shorts showing in subscriptions page when disabled
Changes
- Improve json parsing performance in video pages while logged in
- Scroll + scroll volume not persisting

Fixes:
- Navigation bar width not resetting in super theater when closing chat
- Feature initialization depending on player ready callback outside the video page (video focus, default quality, default speed, super theater, and annotations)

New Features:
- Reverse playlist control
- Channel trailer autoplay control
Improvement:
- Remove blacklisted videos from video endscreen
Fixes:
- Channel count not working correctly with a different YT UI
- Blacklist not covering the trending, gaming, and podcasts lists
- Mini player controls not showing when autoplay is disabled

New features:
- Show video channel count that also acts as a shortcut to the channel video page
- Option to make holding the shift key optional when changing volume with mouse wheel
Improvements:
- Allow player shortcuts (K key and Spacebar) to start playback when autoplay is off
- Make sure extension settings apply to videos that resume after idling for more than 6h (streams expire)
Fixes:
- Fix black screen showing on upcoming live streams
- Don't put chat on the side in super theater mode when opening the video for the first time if the chat is closed by default
- Fix shorts not being removed from subscriptions page when using the list view mode instead of grid view mode

New features:
- Control how much the volume changes when using the mouse wheel
- Control video autoplay from the webpage
Fixes:
- Channel tab setting not working when selecting own channel from profile icon
- Full titles in thumbnails with wrong description
- Clips not working when autoplay is disabled
- Search bar width not updating correctly when in super theater mode and chat is open
Changes:
- The override methods are no longer targeting player methods and instead target data responses
- The autoplay control feature was migrated to use play policy method instead of internal APis

Fix always visible mode not working correctly with new YouTube UI
Fix video focus shortcut with incorrect details
Improve player tools by renaming them to utils and shortcuts
Fix search bar becoming too small when combining super theater and always visible modes
Improve mini player UI by hiding superfluous buttons
Prevent page scroll when clicking a timestamp while in always visible mode

New features:
- Always visible player
- Super theater mode
Changes:
- Scroll volume now requires holding shift to change volume
- Scroll volume can now be used from anywhere in the page
Fixes:
- Fixed feature compatibility with new video page UI
- Revert changes to the video focus setting toggle behavior
- Implemented patch to fix changes not applying when video is resumed after long periods of time

- Implement Full Titles in thumbnails feature
- Implement context validity check in content-script.js
- Improved video focus to show dimmed content when hovering with the mouse
- Dropped use of webRequest, webRequestBlocking, and webRequestFilterResponse
- Dropped any uses of innerHTML
- Fix shorts control feature not working correctly
- Fixed false positive triggering of YT anti-adblock
- Fixed blacklist running on pages that are not home, search, or watch
- Fixed autoplay off stopping video when video data refreshes
- Fixed blacklist channel search not working due to CORS
- Fixed turning off video focus in settings not stopping feature in opened pages
- Fix feature updates not working for multiple listeners registered under the same feature id

- New Blacklist feature! Block videos from channels. A new button is available in the 3 vertical dot context menu next to the video thumbnails (except vertical short thumbnails) that blocks the respective channel, or add it manually in the add-on settings page.
- Improved monetization UI - it now has a better UI and shows when a video has sponsored content
- Improved playback speed feature to not enforce as aggressively and added a new default Auto option
- Fix disabled ads still showing in the home page after scrolling

New features:
Video focus toggle on video page
Default channel tab
Video annotation control
Disable merch below the video

Fixes:
Update top-layer extension logic to work with non-persistent background scripts in preparation for MV3
Default settings not loading on fresh install
Prevent options page from opening in two tabs

Big 2.0 update!

It has been a while, but I've resumed work on the extension.

Since it has been so long, the extension had to be redesigned from scratch, but there is a highlight of the features I was able to implement for now (others will come in the future):

Theme control
Scroll to change video audio
Disable video shorts
Control ads on home, video and search pages
Show ads only for subscribed channels
Show video monetization info and respective ad count
Take a video screenshot
Open the video thumbnail
Change the YouTube logo redirect action to your subscriptions page
Default video quality and playback speed
Focus video while playing
Disable loudness normalization
And more

As always, this is a continuous work in progress and I appreciate everyone's feedback and bug reports to help make the extension better for everyone.

Removed always playing feature since YouTube introduced their own solution
Fix default YouTube logo destination link not changing on Linux OS
Fix player switching to always visible when user opens a video link from an external source

Fix video thumbnail playback not working when autoplay is turned off

Fix locale fetching not working in Firefox due to browser bug
Fix auto play not working
Fix ad control not working
Fix player pop-up mode not working
Fix annotations setting not being enforced

Fix incorrect player size when autoplay is disabled
Fix erratic player behavior when always visible feature is enabled

Fix video not scaling correctly when the player changes sizes

Fix mini player not scaling correctly if the user hasn't moved it for the first time

Fix video not scaling properly
Fix always visible player not working when in theater mode

Fix page exclusion list missing forward slash
Fix query selector incorrect format

Update extension name to make it easier for users to find
Fix reverse playlist mal functioning with too large playlists
Fix video count appending extra text incorrectly on Firefox
Fix pop up player not working correctly for some logged in users
Fix general extension incorrect behavior for some logged in users
Fix Iridium not working for channel urls that don't start with specific prefix
Fix blacklist not working correctly

Fix channel video count and relative video post time not working correctly

Fix floating player not restoring correctly after the first time it is restored
Fix blacklist button not showing in /live pages
Fix fullbrowser mode showing transparent background for some users

Fix blacklist stops working after resetting it
Improve welcome box not adjusting height for small size screens

Fix player always visible while scrolling not working due to bad YouTube native version detection method