The "seek bar" is the bar at the bottom of a video that progresses as you play the video, and that you can click on or drag to skip around. Why companies ever thought it was a good idea to get rid of this I don't know, but I find it infuriating, so I decided to add it back for myself and thought others might like it too.
ReelControl adds a progress bar and seeking capabilities to videos on Instagram, YouTube Shorts, and Facebook Reels.
I do sometimes enjoy watching short-form content and I've found that with this extension enabled I can be more mindful about it and get sucked in way less. I'm also on my phone less because I tend to favor the web versions of these platforms now.
Open source--PRs and issues welcome! https://github.com/darajava/seek-anywhere/
javascript:(function(){document.querySelectorAll("video").forEach(((e,o)=>{console.log(`VideoFixer: Processing <video> #${o+1}:`,e),e.style.position="relative",e.style.zIndex="999999",e.controls=!0,e.style.pointerEvents="auto";const t=[],i=[];["disablePictureInPicture","disableRemotePlayback"].forEach((o=>{e.hasAttribute(o)&&(t.push(o),e.removeAttribute(o))})),e.hasAttribute("controlsList")&&(i.push(...e.getAttribute("controlsList").split(/\\s+/)),e.removeAttribute("controlsList")),t.length&&console.log(`VideoFixer: Removed attributes: ${t.join(", ")}`),i.length&&console.log(`VideoFixer: Removed controlsList restrictions: ${i.join(", ")}`),t.length||i.length||console.log("VideoFixer: No restrictions found to remove.")})),console.log("VideoFixer: All videos processed.");}());
I really wish there were a middle ground, like an external extension manager where you could opt into updates, with reproducible builds, changelogs, etc.
Having said that I haven’t developed a chrome extension in years. They are so strict now. I know they can’t manually inspect each line but I do hope it helps solve the problem of extensions going rogue.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GqkmtcirwYA -> https://www.youtube.com/watch/GqkmtcirwYA
But actually I see that seek bar is already available in youtube shorts. Maybe it's a recent change?
https://libredirect.github.io/
https://libredirect.codeberg.page/
> A web extension that redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and other websites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends.
https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends
https://github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends
On KDE, I assigned an action to open some URLs with mpv, which means I can play then from the clipboard manager or the copy menu that is displayed when copying if it's enabled.
tiktok.com##sharing-main-video-el:watch-attr(controlslist):remove-attr(controlslist)
It seems a bit flakey on mobile, but it was a nice addition to the other enhancements. I haven't been able to make the mobile web as useful as the desktop web version, but didn't want to spend too much time on it either.
I've never done a Firefox extension before but I could definitely give it a go.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/video-scrubber-for-...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-scrubbe...
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/video-controls-for-...
https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/video-cont...
My heart bleeds for them.
Something like MIT gives them permission to do anything as long as attribution is maintained, while avoiding liabilities.
But there are others you can pick: https://choosealicense.com/
For a project like this, I would strongly recommend an MIT license. That will essentially allow people to use the code and modify it, contribute back to it, and otherwise distribute their changes.
That way not only do you get the seek/pause controls back, but other stuff like volume, comments, keyboard shortcuts etc. now work as usual too.