Plugin stopped working this evening. about youtube-design-preserver HOT 12 CLOSED

16.06.2020 Plugin stopped working (Opera browser)
17.06.2020 It works again (Opera browser)
I better like the "old" youtube layout, it's quicker and "smaller".

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17.06.2020 (evening) Plugin stopped working (Opera browser)

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YouTube removed the method this add-on was using to set the old layout. I found a workaround tho. The old layout should work again in the newest version for Firefox. An update for the Opera version is coming soon.

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Found a solution: "User-Agent: Googlebot/2.1". Works fine (Opera browser). m.b. u could implement it in your code

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Well, that is the workaround that I was talking about. :)
You can see the changes here, if you'd like: 6f3fef8
The newest version for Firefox already uses this method. The Opera version will be released soon.

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Consider BingBot as "Old Layout Method2"

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Just wanted to let ya know that this no longer works for firefox 54.0 (32-bit). I removed the old version and installed your latest one (2.4.0) which was suppose to fix it, but it didn't. Refreshing the page, clearing cache, spamming the "fix it" button.. nothing worked.

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Could You be pleased to update the extension for Opera? :-)

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"videos?disable_polymer=1"

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what does it mean?

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"videos?disable_polymer=1"

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That's an older way of asking YouTube for the old layout (or rather, telling it to disable the new one)

You used to be able to append "disable_polymer=1" to the Query String (with a preceding "?" if none present yet, otherwise "&")
YouTube are always rolling out changes at different times for different people, but as of a couple of weeks ago, it stopped working for me. Chances for this working for anybody now are increasingly slim.

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Iv found a temp. solution: AFTER starting any yt-video(in "Polymer layout") u should trigger "UserAgent" parameter, i.e. from "Default" to "GoogleBot". It works right now. And here is the URL for "old layout" subscriptions : ....youtube.com/feed/subscriptions?disable_polymer=true&flow=1

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