YouTube Enhancements
Comprehensive YouTube userscript suite covering auto-like, channel navigation, adblock-protection bypass, smart scrolling, UI cleanup, and detailed settings.
Context
This is one of the broader browser-automation projects in the portfolio, built around many small frictions that appear while using YouTube regularly.
Problem
Frequent YouTube use creates a long tail of repetitive actions: liking subscribed channels, navigating to videos tabs, bypassing adblock warnings, scrolling, and hiding unwanted homepage sections.
Solution
The script bundles multiple focused features behind a settings panel: subscription-aware auto-like, channel redirect shortcuts, adblock-ban bypass, keyboard-controlled scrolling, game-section removal, configurable check frequency, and advanced logging.
Key decisions
- -Refactored the codebase into specialized classes so the growing feature set stayed maintainable.
- -Made every major behavior configurable because not all automation belongs on by default.
- -Updated the implementation for Trusted Types compliance and dynamic navigation events to stay reliable on modern YouTube.
Key features
- -Auto-like with watch-threshold, live-stream, and subscription-aware options
- -Automatic redirect from channel featured pages to videos pages
- -AdBlock-ban bypass with feature-preserving playback
- -Keyboard-controlled smart scrolling
- -Optional hiding of game-related homepage sections
- -Advanced logging and configurable check frequency
- -F2 settings panel
Results
- -Represents one of the most feature-complete userscripts in the portfolio.
- -Shows architecture, maintainability, and compatibility work beyond small DOM tweaks.
- -Adds a stronger product feel to the automation catalog through settings, logging, and modular design.