Add button to switch video page to embedded view

[DriftSolutions]

⚬ PROBLEM:
Currently with YouTube's little war on ad blockers they whine and block playback on the main video page, but not on embedded view.

⚬ SOLUTION:
It would be cool if there was an option to add a button somewhere that switched to embedded view.

⚬ ALTERNATIVES:
The alternative right now is just manually changing the URL from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
to
https://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID

⚬ RELEVANCE / SCOPE:
This would be good for anyone who isn't paying for YouTube Premium.

⚬ "SIDE EFFECTS":
I can't think of any side effects, basically only people paying for YouTube wouldn't need it and could be default off for sure.

[ImprovedTube]

hi @DriftSolutions, thanks, did you try our popup player? we can add a feature for troubleshooting to open the popup player without a click if the player isnt playing (while auto play is on) or if it isnt reacting on the play button. Or if an ad is playing or if the video's duration is not yet the right one. our repeat feature also should be aware of this not to repeat ads too, but it needs an edit #1504

context:

Roadmap

• Clean YT's DOM? (+avoid CPU-rendering)
• Full-page GUI: History & Dashboard

readme.md

Easy alternative/additionally

• [#Feature Request]: "popup player only" ( = Bypassing youtube-com/watch?= with youtube.com/embed ...)
  • And our own liteweight video page / tab / window?
    • some channels forbid players embedded beyond the Youtube.com URL (such as VEVO & SME) (can we notice in advance? & to make them default to a popout player)

(#1211)

[DriftSolutions]

Awesome, I didn't know about the popup player but it works perfectly :)

[ImprovedTube]

hi :) @DriftSolutions the project could use a lot of people pondering about it's structure, discovery of features. Tag instead of folder structure. etc.

(also browser extensions as a whole: While (highly motivatingly) > 0.5 million browsers are running our extension, it also is crazy that as little as less than one in 1000 Youtube users has the extension installed, let alone made more than a few clicks. Yet of course I don't mean to work on a crazy niche requiring special focus or Asperger autism, but to design a product relevant enough to most users.)