auto-jump-ahead-for-youtube

Changelog

1.13

Chrome Web Store submission prep (no behavior change):

• Renamed the extension to Auto Jump Ahead for YouTube. The … for YouTube form avoids implying official affiliation, which is the main trademark-rejection risk. Name propagated across manifest, README, popup, and privacy pages.
• Replaced the red, YouTube-style play-button icon with a neutral indigo skip-forward glyph to avoid a trademark/affiliation rejection.
• Reworded the store description to state plainly that this is not an ad blocker — it only automates skip actions YouTube already provides. Rewrote docs/CHROME_WEB_STORE.md into a fill-in submission sheet.
• Renamed the GitHub repo to auto-jump-ahead-for-youtube and updated all URLs, including the GitHub Pages privacy-policy link.

1.12

Jump Ahead reliability: remove the cases where a skip only fired after mouse interaction.

• Parse the yt-navigate-finish event detail payload directly. On SPA and cache-hit navigation the window globals often keep the previous video’s data and no interceptable network request fires — the fresh watch response rides in the event itself.
• Added the live player API (movie_player.getPlayerResponse()) as a third data source; it always reflects the current video, immune to stale globals.
• DOM button sightings now feed the data path: when content.js sees YouTube’s own Jump Ahead/skip button (even hidden) and nothing is armed for the current time, injected.js reprocesses all sources instead of relying on a DOM click that silently no-ops while controls are hidden. No-op clicks trigger the same reprocess.
• Broadened seek-command extraction across known wrapper shapes (serialCommand → commandExecutorCommand → direct innertubeCommand), still as an explicit ordered path — no blind deep search.
• Match timelyActions lists anywhere in payloads (all occurrences) instead of only the first timelyActionsOverlayViewModel container.
• Debug surface fixes: filteredOut now actually records dropped segments with reasons (incl. onTap shape summaries for payload-drift diagnosis), network-payload source records survive processAllSources() runs, jumpAhead.activeSegments mirrors the real armed list, and button sightings are recorded under domButtonSightings.

1.11

• Restored an opening-seconds grace: no auto-skip while playback is under 5s, so opening a video no longer skips the instant it starts (regression from 1.10 dropping the lead-in guard). Applies to jump-ahead, SMART_SKIP, and ad-chapter segments, in both the data and DOM-click paths.

1.10

• Redesigned the Jump Ahead toast notification: shows label · from → to · +duration (e.g. YouTube Jump Ahead · 2:14 → 2:36 · +22s) instead of a flat one-line status.
• Added an Undo button on the toast that rewinds to the pre-skip timestamp and clears the matching done-zone so the segment is not immediately re-skipped.
• Added a second Jump Ahead data source: decode SMART_SKIP entity mutations from frameworkUpdates so we pick up segments that never surface in timelyActionsOverlayViewModel.
• Removed the global jump-ahead cache so late-arriving payloads can add new segments, and replaced the all-or-nothing stale-globals bail with per-source video-id staleness filtering.
• Relaxed jump-ahead acceptance thresholds (min delta 1s, max 15min, no 10s lead-in guard) and deduplicated segments across sources.
• Added a direct-seek path in the content script: when the DOM button exposes a duration in its aria-label (e.g. “Jump ahead 22 seconds”), seek the <video> directly instead of clicking a potentially hidden overlay button.
• Suppressed fullscreen-hidden DOM clicks; the data-driven heartbeat now handles those cases on the next tick.
• Improved skip labels: chapter skips now read Skipped chapter: <title> and jump-ahead reads YouTube Jump Ahead (pulled from the button’s own title/accessibility text when available).
• Added a window.__autoskipDebug surface (printJumpAhead(), printSnapshot(), reprocess()) and structured debug logging under the [AutoSkip] prefix to make misfires diagnosable from the DevTools console.

1.9

• Fire the retry/slow-poll cadence on direct page loads (pasted URL, refresh, new tab), not only on SPA navigation — removes the last case where users had to move the mouse before Jump Ahead would trigger.
• Attach the video handler and heartbeat as soon as the <video> element exists, independent of segment availability, so the first skip after data arrives never waits on a DOM mutation.
• Suppress the misleading “Jumped ahead” toast in the DOM-click fallback when the click was a no-op against a hidden overlay; the data-driven path handles it on the next heartbeat tick.
• Removed first-chapter guard that was blocking Jump Ahead segments in the first chapter.
• Added heartbeat polling and extra event listeners for more reliable auto-skip timing.
• Added periodic button polling in content script to catch skip buttons without mouse interaction.
• Renamed the extension to YouTube Skip Assist for clearer, policy-safe positioning.
• Updated public-facing copy to emphasize supported skip assistance and metadata-dependent chapter skipping.
• Tightened chapter matching to avoid false positives.
• Improved YouTube SPA/navigation reliability.
• Improved payload interception across fetch/XHR variations.
• Added intro-chapter guard (do not skip intro unless ad cues exist).
• Added dedicated privacy policy page and markdown fallback.
• Refreshed README and user documentation.

1.4

• Added popup toggles for Jump Ahead and Ad Chapter behavior.
• Added music video guard.
• Improved chapter extraction robustness across YouTube payload shapes.