A script to process visually and auditory scrambled YouTube videos into a human understandable format, but slightly more optimized. Now also decoding hover previews and embedded videos. Includes an aggressive audio compressor to limit loud noises.
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setInterval) with modern, passive event listeners, drastically reducing the script's resource consumption.no-cookie) variant of YouTube.In case you are unfamiliar with userscripts and are trying to run this script, here are the simple step-by-step instructions:
script manager extension. Usually Tampermonkey or ScriptCat for Google Chrome, Stay for Safari, and Violentmonkey for other browsers such as Edge or Firefox. (See this documentation by 𝖢𝖸 𝖥𝗎𝗇𝗀 for a more detailed explanation.)**Allow User Scripts** inside of your browser's extension settings (chrome://extensions/). Not doing so would make Chrome block all scripts from running from that extension.If this script is not working and you are running this for the first time, you should try to:
- Check if the script is installed and enabled inside your
script manager extension.- Check if the
**Allow User Scripts**is enabled inside your browser's extension settings.- Make sure you are on the website that the script targets. (For example, this script targets
youtube.comso it will not activate anywhere else.)- Reinstall the script. (This shouldn't be needed but really doesn't take very long and could help if you accidentally broke the script somehow.)
- Write a comment/review/bug-report.
Other than for technical research, hobbyist tinkering, or private storage reasons, I do not see any reasonable situations where this tool can be used for a fully legal purpose. These legitimate uses inherently involve private data and would not require making the videos publicly viewable on a platform like YouTube. The moment such content is made public, even in a scrambled form, it implies an intent for wider distribution, which would immediately warrant legal skepticism.
The primary reason to obfuscate public video data—a process this tool is designed to reverse, and NOT perform—is to circumvent platform rules or local laws. That is usually done to gain access to content that is otherwise prohibited, whether due to copyright claims, regional restrictions, or violations of content policy. Using this script for that purpose is therefore a direct circumvention of YouTube's technological protection measures, an explicit violation of their Terms of Service. Depending on the content and your location, this act may also put you in conflict with specific laws, such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the US.
This is a practical warning, not an ethical argument. There are certainly valid ethical reasons to circumvent censorship, such as defending free speech or ensuring public access to vital information. However, it's crucial to understand that platform TOS and legal systems are not designed to weigh individual ethical justifications; they are sets of rules applied broadly. Therefore, even if your motives are ethically sound, the act of circumvention itself will almost certainly still be treated as a violation by the platform and potentially by legal authorities.
Ultimately, the choice and the consequences are yours. While the risk of purely decoding uploaded content is much smaller than that of uploading disallowed content, the risks are nonetheless present. Potential risks include, but are not limited to, the termination of your YouTube account, an IP ban from the service, or in more severe cases, legal action from copyright holders or authorities. You are solely responsible for your actions while using this script. Use it at your own discretion and entirely at your own risk.