Why not do the steps you outlined above as a macro on your keyboard? This eliminates the need for JS. To extract the video URL, you could use some RegEx automatically or Ctrl+F.

Thanks for the recommendation. I’ve done pretty much exactly what you describe using AutoHotKey.

As is everyone born between 1965 and 2015, which is quite a few people.

I am still invested into this weird request :)

Haha, not sure why you would be, but thanks!

Why not do the steps you outlined above as a macro on your keyboard? This eliminates the need for JS.

This is another option I am considering. Again, I’m not too familiar with the tools, but I’m vaguely aware of tools like AutoHotkey. Are there any tools you would recommend for this sort of thing?

Wow, thanks for your offer to help! I’ve added a lemmy.world link to the post of what I’ve tried so far. Should open on your home instance.

Thanks, this is a good idea. I started to look into it, but then ran into some challenges in parsing the JavaScript to extract the video ID of the ad:

• https://sh.itjust.works/post/19366883
• https://programming.dev/post/14154611
• https://lemmy.world/post/15453671

Do you have any experience with JavaScript?

Are you building a collection of ads that you feel will be lost media?

Yeah, more or less. Every YouTube pre-roll advertisement is also just a regular video on the platform, but often the video is often unlisted. I’ve had a couple cases where I thought “I remember a funny ad about that” or “I remember a unique cut of this movie trailer” once the ad is no longer running, and I haven’t been able to find them. A way to autosave every pre-roll ad would give me the option of looking them up later.

But now I will be able to have tabs within groups within windows within desktops!

things like Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V are not in convenient places

Huh, I hunt-and-peck Qwerty and touch-type Dvorak and that has never bothered me. I can know where C and V are, and I just press them.

I don’t game much though, and could see the issue if WASD are scattered all over like they are in Dvorak and can’t be remapped.

You say “were”, past tense. Did you eventually find a fix or a workaround?

Maybe? The popup doesn’t say what the character was, just that it was unexpected. Is there some error debug dump log I should look at for more info?

Arbitrary webpages, I assume.

Lemmy needs is it’s own version of place

We actually already did! [email protected]

I’d love to see some similar community projects.