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noticed this one a bit ago but thought maybe it was a one-off, and now it happened again
will update if I find a way to replicate but it seems to just happen at random so far

It could be that I just overlooked it, but it seems to me as if this project currently has no license. This theoretically makes it illegal for everyone except the author to do almost anything with this script—including simply using it as it’s intended. So please add a license to this project. See here for more info on this issue.

See title. When, for example, viewing a user's playlists page, the script acts on the previews of playlists, fetching the original name of the first video and replacing the playlist's title with it.
Here's a screenshot:

Left is without the script, after is with it.

I solved this issue for myself by simply preventing the script from working on the playlists page:
// @exclude https://www.youtube.com/user/*/playlists*

However, this is a your-mileage-may-wary solution - some users might prefer the current behavior, as the first video's title allows to a limited extent infering the nature of the playlist even without seeing the name. Ideally, the script should recognize playlists and fetch their names (if the API allows that), rather than the first videos. Either way, it's not a high-priority issue.

Information of the previous video is carried over when using Youtube auto play, which will result in descriptions from the previous videos still being displayed for all following ones.

There are two problems with this: Not only doesn't the script recognise the new video and replace the video description, but youtube itself also doesn't replace the modified description at all...

That last one is worrying me tbh, it seems Youtube notices changes to the description and explicitly does not overwrite them.

Obvious solution would be to detect a video change (easiest through URL), discard all caches and reevaluate the whole page.

Also worthy of note is that it seems that ONLY the description is affected, nothing else. No clue why though.

For some reason, the translated desciptions of past videos (during youtube auto-play) are carried over and the newly fetched description get's appended. Should be an easy fix, will look into it right now.

The namespace should be changed, probably to https://github.com/pcouy/YoutubeAutotranslateCanceler/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwYSWAlAewc

Hi there,

Sometimes it happens that some videos have the wrong title and thumbnail.
For example: It has the title of Radio Ga Ga by Queen, but it has the thumbnail of one of George Michael's songs and says it's on George Michael's channel.

Can you fix it?

Hey! Once an API key is generated, it would be a good idea to restrict it to certain scopes. You should probably add in the README.md how to appropriately restrict the API key.

Timestamps are a kind of link to a specific position in a video, format "00:00", which currently will only be displayed as plain text and cannot be clicked.

Hi,
The script do not work if using the classic interface of Youtube.

Failed to find main video description! userscript.html:137:42
Checking main video and 0 video titles! userscript.html:105:21
Failed to find main video description! userscript.html:137:42
Checking main video and 0 video titles! userscript.html:105:21
Failed to find main video description! userscript.html:137:42
Checking main video and 0 video titles! userscript.html:105:21

Using the "modern" interface, the script works correctly.

Tested with Firefox nightly.

So in general, the plugin works great but it doesn't seem to take effect for videos that appear on the main page of Youtube. I had a case where a video was recommended to me on the main page with its title in English but when I clicked it, the title under the video was in Japanese (since the plugin had re-translated it to the original).

The tool shouldn't edit the titles of the mixes. Right now, I can't recognize my mix from other songs' mixes.

Title is as that. It just doesn't work anymore.

Soon after updating to 0.2, the script started asking me for a new key every time I loaded a youtube video. I quickly found out that the cause of that was that the API requests weren't working, and the cause of that was that the Google API daily quota of 10000 queries was exhausted. Before, the script rarely used more than 1000 requests a day, meaning that the number of queries was increased more than tenfold by the update.

Hi,
[removed earlier comment because i didn't see what it does and what it does not do, see under]

Edit: I think i understand: this only change the auto-translate title in a "video" page, but not in the general menu (youtubers' channels or main youtube page).

I get it. It is not what I expected because for me, when I'm in a video page, i don't pay attention anymore to the title (maybe to the description still!); but when i'm reading videos title in a youtuber channel main page, there i pay a really great attention to titles, and thus skip "auto translated" titles (and thus, learned about this script preventing that... but this script doesn't do what I want.)

Could that be changed/updated to put the change there too?

Edit: i'm sorry, i'm really new on this github and i'm not sure if it is a "issue" or "pull request"... sorry.

Seems there is a problem with the video description on livestreams. It seems to be duplicated a lot, when I noticed it it was already 50-100 times the original description after an hour or so. Observed page change detections occasionally, maybe related. Youtube probably adds the description again itself, so might need to cache the assigned description and reassign it when it changes, since youtube can't remove custom modified stuff (like our description) and thus keeps appending it...

The script is asking me to input my API key each time I reload the page or open up a new tab.

Is this intended behavior?