🐞Enabling "Force AutoPlay Off" causes the inability to unpause

[mcswizzle]

Concise Description

Specs: ImprovedTube
Version 4.1096
Permissions: contextMenus, storage

Starting yesterday, when having Force Autoplay Off enabled, videos can not be unpaused. The videos load and pause as expected, however when clicking play the video unpauses for one frame and pauses again. This is consistent across multiple videos. Disabling the function returns playback ability.

Browser/s

Firefox

Other Browser:

None tested, Firefox only

'Steps to reproduce' - Which of our features is required for the bug to happen?

Enable Force Autoplay Off and attempt to play a video.

Since when?

Sept 22, 2024

Does the bug still happen when you log out of YouTube?

No, playback works normally

..No? Then please paste your yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS. Twice (With the error & Without)

When logged in (i.e playback not working):
yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS
Object { EnableAutoTaggedProductCountInPicker: true, H5_enable_full_pacf_logging: true, H5_use_async_logging: true, PremiumClientSharedConfig__enable_att_context_processor: true, PremiumClientSharedConfig__enable_att_for_get_premium_on_web_client: true, ab_det_apb_b: true, ab_det_el_h: true, ab_fk_sk_cl: true, ab_sa_ef: true, action_companion_center_align_description: true, … }

When logged out (i.e playback works):
yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS
Object { EnableAutoTaggedProductCountInPicker: true, H5_enable_full_pacf_logging: true, H5_use_async_logging: true, ab_det_el_h: true, ab_sa_ef: true, action_companion_center_align_description: true, allow_skip_networkless: true, att_web_record_metrics: true, browse_next_continuations_migration_playlist: true, c3_watch_page_component: true, … }

Are any errors or related log-messages shown in the Browser-Console? (F12)

No

Tested as the only active extension? (incognito mode or another browser users):

Not currently - haven't taken the time to test in incognito with no other extensions as that's more work than I'm willing to put into changing my Firefox config at the moment, apologies.

Expected preferred behavior:

Playback works normally

ImprovedTube Version

4.1096

Your Settings (From the Extension's ⋮-Hamburger menu > Settings > Backup & reset > Export settings)

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Your YouTube-Document

Omitted, as it was too long to submit and caused " body is too long, body is too long (maximum is 65536 characters). " issues

OS / Device:

Windows 10

[ImprovedTube]

hi! and thanks @mcswizzle

the experiment flags are actually about a 1000, so what we will do, is (automatically) compare the two lists to identify the few unique ones when logged in, one of which seems to to be required for the bug

please let us know if something still changes. ( and i assume you didn't change any settings the day it started? )