This browser extension attempts to fix a problem I've experienced on some video-calling sites (specifically, Zoom/WhereBy/Google-Meet), where their web clients don't properly ask for HD (1280x720 or 1920x1080) resolution from your camera, and in some cases (like mine) it results in squished/distorted video instead of just nice cropping as would be expected.

This extension patches the built-in getUserMedia(..) API to intercept these kinds of calls and to force a request for 1280x720. Thus, if your camera supports that 16:9 HD aspect ratio, a proper non-squished feed will be returned to the web client. If your camera only supports 4:3 aspect ratio, such as 1024x768 or 640x480, then the request should nicely downgrade for your camera and still provide non-squished (albeit not-HD aspect ratio) video for your calls.

By default, the settings for this extension only apply the patch to Zoom/WhereBy/Google-Meet sites. You can change the settings to apply to different sites. There's also a handy enable/disable toggle switch if you want to quickly turn off the extension temporarily without actually uninstalling it.

This extension doesn't track anything about your activity at all. The only persistent storage is the list of sites you want the extension to activate on, and the flag of if you want the extension enabled or not. That's it.

This extension does not make any network requests whatsoever, and never will. All operation is entirely local to your browser instance on your device.

You can see all the code here in this repository. You can verify that it doesn't track you in any way. As such, it maintains your privacy completely. No exceptions.

All code and documentation are (c) 2020 Kyle Simpson and released under the MIT License. A copy of the MIT License is also included.