A recent Youtube Web update has added a canvas whenever the seek bar is visible, an HTML5 canvas pops up. This was not asked for and not needed. If you disable canvases for privacy, this will cause a horrific red bad to cover half the screen until you hide the seekbar. Canvases can be used for fingerprinting, which I’m sure Google is doing here.

  • @[email protected]
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    1041 month ago

    You can keep canvas blocked on YouTube. To stop the red lines, do this:

    Click uBlock Origin icon (top right of the browser, small red shield).

    Click the gears icon (“Open the dashboard”).

    Click “My filters” tab. Make sure “Enable my custom filters” is checked.

    Add the following string to the list of filters:

    www.youtube.com##.ytp-gradient-bottom

    Click “Apply changes”.

    Reload your youtube video page.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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      730 days ago

      Wait… so the red lines are added ON PURPOSE to deliberately degrade experience, and are not a side effect of having Canvas disabled?

      • @[email protected]
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        329 days ago

        Maybe, I don’t know if it was on purpose. But the red lines are the red-fade-to-pink effect of the progress bar I believe, and I have not found a need for such a feature, so they might be using this feature as an excuse to claim the need of canvas.

        • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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          129 days ago

          Sure sounds like it’s just an excuse, since it worked swimmingly before the canvas claim.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      Thank you thank you THANK YOU! I’ve been trying to get rid of that ugly thing for weeks now.

    • Binette
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      230 days ago

      Saved your comment cause I knew I would run into this issue. Thanks a bunch!