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.
Google uselessly uses the canvas for its reverse image search. And I do mean uselessly - The image you upload is put onto the canvas, then immediately relayed to the server and never used again.
0oWow@lemmy.world 1 week 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.
potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 1 week ago
🔥🔥 thanks for sharing I tried blocking but couldnt find the element
0oWow@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You aren’t supposed to find the element. Just copy the command into your filters and hit apply.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 6 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?
0oWow@lemmy.world 5 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.
BenLeMan@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Thank you thank you THANK YOU! I’ve been trying to get rid of that ugly thing for weeks now.
Binette@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Saved your comment cause I knew I would run into this issue. Thanks a bunch!