'Excluded from redirecting' Doesn't work.

[amogusussy]

In the settings, I've set youtube.com (only the root URL) to not redirect, (screenshot) but when I open youtube.com, it still redirects to an invidious instance.

I only want it to redirect for youtube.com/watch URLs, and nothing else on the youtube.com domain. Is there a way to do this, or fix this bug?

[ManeraKai]

The thing is Exclude from redirecting is taking everything "literally". What I understood was happening was that normally (without LibRedirect) when you type youtube.com, you go to http://youtube.com and then you get redirected to the https version (https://youtube.com), but LibRedirect intercepts the first one (http://youtube.com) and recognize it as not in the excluded list, so it redirects it xD.
I (as an advanced user) prefer the Regex way:

https?:\/\/youtube\.com\/?$
The problem is I can't know if the user is literally meaning to just not redirect the https version, or he is meaning both http and https, or he wants the last slash in the url, or not.
I will though make a change to ignore http and https, and also the last slash, and let's see if one disagrees in the future.

[ManeraKai]

Alright, till the next release comes out, you can use the Regex: https?:\/\/youtube\.com\/?$.

[Elaborendum]

As of the latest version, it seemingly still doesn't work for me. The regex method excludes the main website, but embeds inside the page still get redirected.

[ManeraKai]

@Elaborendum is this still the same in v2.8.0?

[Elaborendum]

Yes, that's still the case. Just excluded and tried it out on https://youtubeembedcode.com, the embedded video still got redirected to one of my chosen invidious instances. If I just disable YouTube redirecting altogether it loads YouTube so it's not another extension.

[ManeraKai]

Try to add https://youtubeembedcode.com/en/ to your exceptions rather than just https://youtubeembedcode.com/.

[Elaborendum]

That works, but I swear that's different from the way it used to be. Now it has to match exactly the full exact URL for it to be excluded and not just the main domain. For example, I have "meet.jit.si" added to the exclusion list to allow for shared embeds to work properly in video calls and I remember it used to work. Currently I'd have to add the exact URL of each new videocall for it to be excluded from redirection.

Also explains why the regex options didn't work for me anymore either, as they only covered the main domain and possible subdomains, changing them to include the slug in the pattern makes them work again. I also probably need to change most of my exclusions to regex if I want them to work.

[ManeraKai]

Yes you should change most to regex. I can't predict what the user wants exactly that's why.