Opera GX - youtube videos keep randomly playing out of nowhere on tabs

[thephantomvoid]

thephantomvoid @SheIsBrooklyn last edited by

@sheisbrooklyn I made an account on here just to post that I just had the same issue happen to me today while using Firefox. I had a few tabs open, with two of them being YouTube videos. One was the video I was watching at the moment, and the other one I had paused and ready to view after I finished the one I was currently on. Out of nowhere a third mystery tab opens up and starts to autoplay a YouTube video that had been floating around in my suggested videos since earlier in the day. I checked my extensions and only had Ublock Origin and NordVPN installed...nothing too exciting. I've Googled a bit on the subject and it seems others have had similar issues in the last month. I suspect that this is somehow just related to YouTube as a website...at the very least I'd hope that it is.

[EndlessDivinity]

EndlessDivinity @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Absolutely! It's too weird! And I am helpless now.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

Has anyone checked 3rd party app access for their Google account to make sure nothing funky has access to your account?

https://myaccount.google.com/permissions?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fmyaccount.google.com%2Fsecurity.

Also, even if you have 2-step verification etc. turned on and haven't seen any prompts on your phone for logins etc., you could still change your password for good measure.

You could also goto https://myaccount.google.com/device-activity/ and check what devices are logged into your account to see if there's anything suspicious. Even if there isn't, it might be a good idea to sign out of all sessions.

You could also clear things at https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy and maybe pause history etc. for a bit.

For those that haven't already tried, make a test [standalone installation[(https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/new_profile/#wiki_standalone_installation) and test in it without importing anything and without enabling Opera Sync, and without installing any extensions, and without enabling Opera's VPN, and without enabling Opera's adblocking and tracking protection. Then, see if it happens after you log in to Youtube.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @EndlessDivinity last edited by burnout426

@endlessdivinity You still get the issue if you don't have tab previews turned on?

What about if you disable video popouts at opera://settings/videoPopout and opera://settings/videoConferencePopout?

I'd also check opera://settings/content/notifications and clear the list for good measure.

Shots in the dark, but...

[kookhtime]

kookhtime last edited by leocg

hello everyone! so this issue has been Fixed for me for a long time now,
i am just here to share a script that might help you with unliking videos!
why? well if you are Fixed then this will be a fast way to return the youtube algorithm close to how it was before, Or if you Don't Know if you are fixed or not you can try this out, and check your liked videos later, unknown videos appear? you are not fixed, they dont appear, well congrats! you are fixed. OR if you are Not fixed you can try this out to check if the malware likes videos, and to bring back the algorithm close to how it was before!

function sleep(ms) { 
return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms)); 
} 
async function deleteLikedVideos() { 
'use strict'; 
var items = document.querySelectorAll('ytd-menu-renderer > yt-icon-button.dropdown-trigger > button[aria-label]'); 
var out; 
for (var i = 0; i < items.length; i++) { 
items[i].click(); 
out = setTimeout(function () { 
if (document.querySelector('tp-yt-paper-listbox.style-scope.ytd-menu-popup-renderer').lastElementChild) { 
document.querySelector('tp-yt-paper-listbox.style-scope.ytd-menu-popup-renderer').lastElementChild.click(); 
} 
}, 100); 
await sleep(500); // sleep cause browser can not handle the process 
clearTimeout(out); 
} 
} 
deleteLikedVideos(); 

paste it in console (Ctrl+Shift+I)
Note: Credits to zeeshan arshad on quora for the script

[SyncMyErrorPlz]

SyncMyErrorPlz last edited by leocg

Hi, for the past half a week, even after I disable my extensions....Opera Gx is playing youtube videos I've never clicked on, while watching another video, and while not even at the computer...

I've disabled auto play in youtube settings. Disabled all my youtube extensions.. And yet ill be away from the computer for 30 mins, not touching it, and it will just start playing videos, that i Cannot See ....i know which tab it is because i can see the audio icon , and when i click on it it mutes, but keeps playing videos..

any idea how to fix, or is there a way to save all my info on opera(bookmarks history etc etc etc), and either reinstall opera, or get it to factory reset, then i can add my infos back to it. thank you

[SyncMyErrorPlz]

SyncMyErrorPlz last edited by leocg

Ok so i realized that I can make this bug happen by pressing space bar when simply on the youtube home page....very weird.

edit Ok This Is Fked UP . I am on twitch.tv.....and a 'kitboga' video from youtube started playing...im not even on youtube, please help guys/gals

[SyncMyErrorPlz]

SyncMyErrorPlz @SyncMyErrorPlz last edited by

@syncmyerrorplz ok now its happenein on any video playing website, except its somehow accessing my youtube and playing on it, rather its twitch or whatever

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @SyncMyErrorPlz last edited by

@syncmyerrorplz First, read https://forums.opera.com/rules and, second, read above.

[SyncMyErrorPlz]

SyncMyErrorPlz @leocg last edited by leocg This post is deleted!

[Lyus]

Lyus last edited by

So, recently I had the same problem here, right after installing some extensions, I deleted most of them, and today I use only those:

Has anyone been able to figure out which extension might have caused this and how to solve it?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Lyus last edited by

@lyus It seems that you posted before the upload, so there is nothing to see.

[Lyus]

Lyus @Lyus last edited by

oops, haha, apparently there isn't an option to edit posts here, which is weird, but i didn't understand, why the image didn't go... some weird error, so I had to upload it outside:
![alt text]

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Lyus last edited by

@lyus There is a 30 minutes (or would it be 60, don't remember now) to edit your posts

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Lyus last edited by

@lyus Disable all of them and, then, start enabling one by one again until you find the culprit.

[Lyus]

Lyus @leocg last edited by

@leocg ok guys, I found the extension that caused the problem, it was the '' video speed adjuster '' I just had to deactivate it and the background audios didn't happen anymore, nor did strange videos appear in my youtube history, but this is really strange, because I use this extension for a VERY VERY long time and only now it came to cause this malware? anyway, I need to find a replacement for it now.
thanks for your help @leocg

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

So, so far, these extensions are bad and have been removed from the Chrome webstore due to malware:

• Video Speed Adjuster: hfocimkojbioaeoahniabkjafgjeacpi
• Simple Volume Booster: pidecdgcabcolloikegacdjejomeodji
• Nice Volume Booster: hdifogmldkmbjgbgffmkphfhpdfhjgmh
• Dark mode for PDF files: kgeaejfodjnbogjfpjbphadocfikhogj or imfnolmlkamfkegkhlpofldehcfghkhk

It's definitely a good idea to make sure any Chrome extensions you have are still at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions. If they've been removed, you probably shouldn't use them.

For those that don't have any extensions and still get the issue when logging into Youtube, as a test, make a standalone installation, create a new, test Google account, and log in with that new Google account to test if you still get the issue.

[QueTeaPie]

QueTeaPie @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 i believe its a YouTube issue as well, ever since YouTube last update there have been a huge number of bugs that not only I've been dealing with but others have been reporting.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @QueTeaPie last edited by

@queteapie It's possible, but this issue was happening before the new Youtube layout went live as far as I know.

[sui777]

sui777 last edited by

This is not happening to me as much on youtube as some users here are saying. Maybe once a week it happens on youtube in google chrome browser. Happens daily in Opera though but on a different video hosting site.

I use multiple browsers and have multiple tabs open at same time and my pc only goes to sleep mode when I'm not using it. It also is only off when it gets restarted once every week.

My issue with a random video playing which I did not start is:

I will be watching a chinese drama video on Iqiyi website at night on Opera and when the episode finishes I will stop the video (but leave the tab open). I will then start doing stuff in google chrome and put the pc to sleep when I go to sleep.

The following day after logging back into my pc I will be using chrome for youtube and various other browsers for other things (not video playback) and randomly the opera tab that had the video playing the day before will start playing again. I may have gone back to other tabs in the opera browser the next day but I definitely did not touch or click the iqiyi website tab in opera on the following day. This has even happened when I was not using my pc but it was still on and the iqiyi website in the opera tab will start video playback.

I'm thinking this may have to do with auto refresh built into chromium browsers? This does not happen to me in other browsers. Only Opera / chrome