YouTube Over Commercials by Ryan O

4.7 Stars out of 5

Review by Firefox user 18852919

Love the add-on; thanks for all your hard work!

Only trouble is that I wish there was a way to set the size of the initial instruction screen to be smaller than the video overlay itself. Right now I can't select any pixel if I want the commercials to take up the whole frame, and even when I set the size to 90 or 95 percent, the pixel I need to select may still be out of reach.

An option to shuffle YouTube playlists would also be fantastic - right now their videos always play in the exact same order.

Developer response

posted 2 months ago

Thanks for the review!

Sorry, but the size of the initial instruction screen is intentionally set to be the same size that you set the video overlay due to a technical limitation. The way that the extension works is by taking a screenshot of just the pixel the user selected every second. If the user selects a pixel on the main video that the video overlay covers during commercials, the screenshot would be taken of the overlay video and not the main video. I would recommend setting the video overlay location to the top or bottom to try to get it the biggest you can while still not covering the pixel you want to select.

Great idea for the shuffling option! I'll try to look in to that to see if it is something I can implement in my next update.

3/13/25 Update: I added a "Auto Shuffle Next YT Video" option as well as a "Auto-Set Overlay Video Size and Location" option so you can try to get the largest video overlay that you can.