Back in the day I had a Firefox extension that would replace all YouTube embeds with a thumbnail that when clicked would just open YouTube.
I originally wrote it because my phone didn't have flash and flash embeds were common. But it was nice to extend it to cover iframe embeds as well which were much faster and opening the embed in a full YouTube website or app was better UX than a tiny embed window in most cases.
I never migrated it to a WebExtension after being annoyed that I wrote it to the new high-level extension API at the time that was supposed to be supported across browser versions. But this post makes me want to port it.
I originally wrote it because my phone didn't have flash and flash embeds were common. But it was nice to extend it to cover iframe embeds as well which were much faster and opening the embed in a full YouTube website or app was better UX than a tiny embed window in most cases.
I never migrated it to a WebExtension after being annoyed that I wrote it to the new high-level extension API at the time that was supposed to be supported across browser versions. But this post makes me want to port it.