Hide VP9 support for Firefox. v0.2 2019-12-20
// ==UserScript==
// @name Hide VP9 support from YouTube
// @author Jefferson "jscher2000" Scher
// @namespace JeffersonScher
// @version 0.2
// @copyright Copyright 2019 Jefferson Scher
// @license BSD-3-Clause
// @description Hide VP9 support for Firefox. v0.2 2019-12-20
// @match https://www.youtube.com/*
// @match https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/*
// @match https://www.youtu.be/*
// @run-at document-start
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
// Modified from https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify/tree/master/src/inject as of 2018-05-16 (MIT license)
var mse = window.MediaSource;
if (mse){
// Set up replacement for MediaSource type support function
var nativeITS = mse.isTypeSupported.bind(mse);
mse.isTypeSupported = ourITS(nativeITS);
}
// Here's the replacement
function ourITS(fallback){
// type is a string (hopefully!) sent by the page
return function (type) {
if (type === undefined) return '';
// We only reject VP9
if (type.toLowerCase().indexOf('vp9') > -1) return '';
if (type.toLowerCase().indexOf('vp09') > -1) return ''; // Added 12/20/2019
// Let Firefox handle everything else
return fallback(type);
};
}