YouTube Popup Player

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YouTube Popup Player — Watch Videos While You Browse

Watch any YouTube video (Shorts and standard) in a floating popup window while you continue browsing. Drag it anywhere, resize it, adjust transparency, and keep watching while you work.

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FREE FEATURES:
- Popup Player for Shorts AND Standard Videos — 50 popup sessions per month
- Drag, Resize & Reposition — move the popup anywhere on screen
- Minimize to Mini-Bar — collapse the popup to a slim, draggable bar
- Transparency Control — adjust popup opacity from 10% to 100%
- Theater Mode — dims the page background for focused viewing
- Video Queue — build a playlist of videos to watch back-to-back
- Autoplay Queue — plays the next queued video automatically
- Block Mode — hide Shorts from your YouTube home feed, subscriptions, search, and sidebar
- Keyboard Shortcuts — play/pause (Space/K), seek (J/U), volume (arrows), fullscreen (F), loop (L), and more
- Themes — Auto (system), Light, Dark, and YouTube Native
- *Statistics — track daily and total popup usage and watch time (still testing - might not work reliably)
- Import/Export Settings — back up your full configuration as JSON
- WCAG 2.1 AA Accessibility — skip links, ARIA labels, high contrast mode, screen reader support
- Onboarding Wizard — choose your preferred mode on first install
- SPONSORBLOCK INTEGRATION: Skip sponsors, intros, outros, self-promotions, and more — automatically. Crowdsourced from the SponsorBlock community. Track time saved with built-in statistics. Configure which categories to skip.

PREMIUM FEATURES (Monthly $4.99 | Annual $29.99 | Lifetime $49.99):
- Unlimited Popup Sessions — no monthly cap
- Multiple Popup Players — up to 7 concurrent popups per tab
- Ad-Free Experience — removes the banner ad from the extension popup
- *Content Filtering — filter videos by keyword, channel name, or video duration with built-in presets (Hide Clickbait, Family Mode, etc.) (beta—still testing)
- Advanced Filters — sentiment analysis, engagement scoring, duplicate detection, language detection, regex patterns, and community filter lists
- Channel Manager — block, allow, favorite, monitor, or rate-limit channels with bulk operations
- Detailed Statistics Dashboard — filter effectiveness, performance metrics, filtering timeline, and history export
- Time Limits — set daily watch time limits for Shorts (5–120 min presets)
- Focus Mode — block YouTube entirely during productivity sessions (15/30/60 min)
- Background Navigation — interact with the page behind the popup without closing it
- Premium Themes — High Contrast, Blue Light Filter, Gaming, and custom theme creation

/// * - Statistics and Content Filtering are still being tested, and likely won't work reliably. If you would like to help with testing, contact me at [email protected] and I can send you a tester code to unlock Premium for your account. Thanks! ///

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HOW TO USE:
1. Browse YouTube normally (home page, search, subscriptions)
2. Click a Short or video — it opens in a floating popup
3. Drag to reposition, resize with corner handles, adjust transparency
4. Continue browsing while the popup plays
5. Use Alt/Option+Click for Quick Popup Mode

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PRIVACY FOCUSED:
- Settings stored locally in your browser (chrome.storage)
- No tracking of your browsing history beyond YouTube
- Secure payment processing via Stripe (we never see your card details)
- Optional Google sign-in for premium account sync only
- Privacy policy: https://ytpopupplayer.app/privacy

Support: [email protected]
Website: https://ytpopupplayer.app

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Changelog (starting from v0.3.8):
- v0.3.8:
    - Fixed premium license detection — multi-popup now works reliably for premium users
      -- Sign-out now properly clears account data
    - Fixed video popup player not opening on first click after install (default now enabled)
      -- Improved click reliability on video thumbnails
    - Fixed queue duration showing incorrect values — now extracts real duration
       -- Added duration fetching for Shorts via YouTube's internal API (no API key needed)
    - Fixed hover preview playback on YouTube home page — queue buttons moved to metadata area to avoid conflicts
    - Fixed orphaned popup registry entries blocking new popups after page reload
    - Fixed drag-and-drop to queue not adding items when dropping onto existing queue entries
    - Fixed 3-dot menu clicks being intercepted by the extension
    - Fixed stale subscription tier in storage causing premium features to appear disabled