KasetPlus v0.12.0-kp.13

What’s New

Warning

In the current state some ads are not blocked since they come from the server.
I'm working to get an ad-free experience but this could take some time!

🔧 Fix: YouTube videos not loading (black screen)

YouTube changed how it loads video and regular YouTube videos stopped playing, staying on a black screen. This release fixes it, so videos play again. The player was keeping the <video> element hidden while isolating it, and YouTube now refuses to load the stream for a hidden player, so it’s kept rendered and the stream loads.

It also stops the ad blocker from breaking playback: with ad blocking on, videos could go black (or play for half a second and stop). The ad blocker no longer interferes with the YouTube player, it just clicks YouTube’s own “Skip” button on skippable ads, which never corrupts playback.

Note: YouTube’s server-side ads (stitched into the stream) can’t be removed from inside the player without breaking it, so those may still appear. Playback itself is fully fixed.

Note

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A note about the original project

KasetPlus wouldn’t exist without the amazing work behind Kaset.

If you’re considering supporting development, I’d really encourage you to support the original project as well, or even before supporting KasetPlus.

☕ Original Kaset Ko-fi: Support Kaset on Ko-fi