Reviews for Watchmarker for Youtube
Watchmarker for Youtube by sniklaus
Review by DonChino
Rated 5 out of 5
by DonChino, 5 years ago*** UPDATE - 03\30\20 ***
Simon,
You are truly a scholar and a gentleman. First time any developer on the Firefox Add-On board actually responded to my review; but I am glad you are "alive" and came out of slumber to patch this. It is now beautiful and YouTube has a bad habit of recommending videos I have already watched MONTHS ago. Your GRAY overlay with WATCHED text is AWESOME; because I code while I listen \ watch YouTube, so this makes it easier for me to avoid realizing I am re-watching something TWO minutes in. We MUST stop these YouTube creators from dipping 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 100X for the same videos, hahaha... Thank you and now all we need is a way to auto-sync history across all our machines with a single account. I am too lazy for Manual Export\Import.... FIVE STARS !!!
*** OLD REVIEW - 03\24\20 ***
Developer needs to update this add-on; but it is possible they have not tested it recently with Firefox, since it has not been updated for over a year. It is an AWESOME idea; but does not work correctly with Firefox 74.0. All thumbnails appear with a grey overlay above it with the text WATCHED in some cases. It is an obvious alignment \ overlay issue; so most likely YouTube "broke" it and this needs to be fixed ASAP. If this is fixed, then I will upgrade to FIVE stars; because it is needed, so now I am off to find another add-on.
Simon,
You are truly a scholar and a gentleman. First time any developer on the Firefox Add-On board actually responded to my review; but I am glad you are "alive" and came out of slumber to patch this. It is now beautiful and YouTube has a bad habit of recommending videos I have already watched MONTHS ago. Your GRAY overlay with WATCHED text is AWESOME; because I code while I listen \ watch YouTube, so this makes it easier for me to avoid realizing I am re-watching something TWO minutes in. We MUST stop these YouTube creators from dipping 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 100X for the same videos, hahaha... Thank you and now all we need is a way to auto-sync history across all our machines with a single account. I am too lazy for Manual Export\Import.... FIVE STARS !!!
*** OLD REVIEW - 03\24\20 ***
Developer needs to update this add-on; but it is possible they have not tested it recently with Firefox, since it has not been updated for over a year. It is an AWESOME idea; but does not work correctly with Firefox 74.0. All thumbnails appear with a grey overlay above it with the text WATCHED in some cases. It is an obvious alignment \ overlay issue; so most likely YouTube "broke" it and this needs to be fixed ASAP. If this is fixed, then I will upgrade to FIVE stars; because it is needed, so now I am off to find another add-on.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoGood news, I have just updated the addon. I would appreciate it if you could give it a try again, thanks!
Regarding your update with the question about syncing: the history should automatically be synced across computers as long as they are all logged into the same Youtube account.
:: Simon
Regarding your update with the question about syncing: the history should automatically be synced across computers as long as they are all logged into the same Youtube account.
:: Simon
136 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by BLKHS, 23 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Shalrath, 23 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by voskresenie, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Keraunos, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17657751, 5 months agoExactly what I needed. Really clearly labels watched vids. Import from ff history and youtube then good to go. So good, i'm going to see if I can throw a donation at the author
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18817403, 5 months agoAs of 2/4/25 it's currently not marking videos on the main youtube page as watched even if I've watched them. It's working on the subscription page and in search.
Developer response
posted 5 months agoI just released version 4.7.1 with some small fixes, did this update start marking videos again on the main page by chance? If not, could you open an issue here [1] with some more details such that I can take a closer look? Thanks in advance!
:: Simon
[1] https://github.com/sniklaus/youtube-watchmarker/issues - Rated 5 out of 5by Marty, 6 months agoThis extension is great because you never click on a video that you have already seen. One thing that is not true is that it only works with the new YouTube user interface. Since YouTube changed the user interface, I've been using the YouTube Redux extension to get the old user interface back. I just don't like the fact that the comments are now on the right and there are suggestions for other videos below the video. The Watchmaker extension works perfectly with the YouTube Redux extension and everything runs smoothly, and I haven't noticed any problems. The YouTube Redux extension forces the previous user interface.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18770097, 6 months agoGreat concept, but ultimately too many false positives for watched videos, even after adjusting the settings a few times. An in-browser "mark un-played" button would be helpful, as it is removing play marks from a text-only list is more work than it's worth for me.
Edit to add: Actually an option to have the extension mark a video as played only when the progress bar hits a certain threshold (100%, 95%, etc) would be idealDeveloper response
posted 6 months agoThank you for the feedback! You are not alone with this, you can find similar suggestions in the Github project [1, 2] but I am afraid that I don't know if/when I will be able to implement those, sorry!
:: Simon
[1] https://github.com/sniklaus/youtube-watchmarker/issues/65
[2] https://github.com/sniklaus/youtube-watchmarker/issues/68 Developer response
posted 6 months agoThank you for the kind words! I just released a new version that should support shorts, hope it works for you. 🤞
:: Simon- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11448708, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dragos, 8 months agoIt marks clearly watched videos. It's easy to export and import watched videos from a browser to another.
- Rated 5 out of 5by thefenrisulfr, 8 months agoI can't even remember what Youtube is like without this addon. Incredible work.
- Rated 5 out of 5by VOIIIXI, 9 months agoOne of my favorite add-ons on YouTube. I watch 100s of videos weekly and this helps me out a lot in tracking what I've seen and what I haven't. really fantastic add-on!!
- Rated 4 out of 5by piecevcake, a year agoVery useful, nicely structured, would be 5 stars if
1) it didn't slow YT videos to an almost complete lag; (database 4495)
---Would marking the text (purple or red) instead of the image use less resources?
---I have many unloaded tabs of videos, is something collating all those unloaded tabs each time?
2) it said when each option marks a video- do any mark when they are queued? When do the YT options mark them? When does history matk them
3) once you have a collection in memory, which ones are needed to update it? - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18513806, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14379940, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Methos, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by aboutthat, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mojtaba, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by MP3Martin, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by chayes, 2 years agoGreat app. Easy and smooth to use.
Suggestion : Would love an option to change the date stamp format to dd / mm / yyyy. The default one is kind of backwards...
:) - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13437493, 2 years ago
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThank you for bringing this up! I just released another version that should fix this bug. Should the issue persist then please try to open a case here [1] such that I can track it better. Thanks!
:: Simon
[1] https://github.com/sniklaus/youtube-watchmarker/issues