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Try this https://fraidyc.at/

This is literally what the OP has acknowledged was an issue:

I should have caught it, and I take responsibility for it, and probably workarounds need more comments so this doesn't happen

It does. But that also means that you have almost surely navigated away from watching the video.

Chrome shows that warning if your extension requests access to the 'tabs' permission. https://developer.chrome.com/apps/permission_warnings#view_w...

In this case, it is needed to get the url and id of the tab. I'll have to go back and check if I can make do without depending on that because I agree it does not make sense for this extension to need 'access to my browsing history'. Also, I do intend to put the code up and link it in the extension description page soon, so you don't have to take my word for it!

Thanks for pointing this out.

Oh, I wasn't aware of this. I'm going to try this out this weekend.

Thanks for sharing.

You're welcome!

The only issue I have now is that I've moved on to using Firefox. So, I can't really use this extension anymore.

I guess that sounds like another 'niche problem' that needs solving.

I recently had a similar experience: I watch a lot of YouTube videos and I like reading through the comments. Often, comments quote specific timestamps from the video and I would find it a pain to keep scrolling between the comment section at the bottom of the page and the video at the top and then find the specific time in the video that the comment was talking about.

So, I created a Chrome extension that surfaces YouTube comments that have timestamps right below the video, around the time that the comment contains. And, then disappears it after a few seconds.

It was fun to make and in the end, it solved a very specific problem that I was facing.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-timed-comm...

A good video on writing that talks about similar ideas is https://youtu.be/vtIzMaLkCaM

This video is geared more towards academic writing, but, I've found it helpful even outside of that space.

To add to that, the one of the biggest takeaways from the video, and what is also mentioned in this post, is to 'open people’s eyes by proving the status quo wrong'.

People only read things if they find value in what you have written - they are less likely to pay attention if the article is written in a way that best demonstrates how much you (the writer) know about something. And, showing readers that their understanding might have some gaps is a good way to sustain their interest.

Related: I've found advice on this video to be very useful in terms of some actionable feedback that can be incorporated in your writing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM