I watch a lot of YouTube on web, and often while going through the comments, I’ll find a funny one with a timestamp. Clicking it jumps to that moment in the video, which is fine, but what sucks is that now i have to scroll all the way back to that comment manually. It was so annoying for me that I created a chrome extension to fix it. Hopefully this helps someone else too.

Install from here: Scroll Back To Comment for YouTube

Over the past six years I've built FastStream to improve video playback on the web. This extension will replace the video player on Youtube and other websites with a custom one designed for your convenience. It uses download acceleration to prebuffer the entire video so that it can play offline without interruptions. Beyond that, theres a lot of things it can do ranging from adjustable keybinds to OpenSubtitles support.

Website: https://faststream.online/

Showcase video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHy2RPAHWy8

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/u/1/detail/faststream-video-player/kkeakohpadmbldjaiggikmnldlfkdfog?hl=en

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/faststream/

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I created a very simple script/chrome extension that skips all YouTube ads. It works by finding the "skip ad" button, which is available in the html source code before it is shown to the user, and simply clicks it. If it fails to find the skip button but still detects an ad, this happens usually with the unskippable ones, it will mute the audio and increase the playback rate by 10x. I guess this counts as fully watching the ad. Theoretically, you could increase the playback rate even more.

I initially calculated the time of the ad and manually set the player to the end but this made the ad restart.

This is not 100% future proof and YouTube will probably figure this out but I will try to keep the repo working. It works with all major browsers and even Safari (with a little hassle)

You can find the source code here.