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YouTube 15 - Search While Watching Video

YouTube 14 - Advanced YouTube Search

YouTube 13 - HD Auto Quality

YouTube 12 - Search Dropdown List

YouTube 11 - Remove Most Replayed Graph

YouTube 10 - Remove Shorts / Popular / Also Watched / New To You / Explore

YouTube 09 - Disable Inline Playback

YouTube 08 - Add Playlist Autoplay Button

YouTube 07 - Disable AutoPlay (Allow Playlist Autoplay)

YouTube 06 - Disable AutoPause

YouTube 05 - Fullscreen Scroll Disabler

YouTube 04 - Remove FS Title, Chat/Comments, Provider/Rating, Ticket Shelf

YouTube 03 - Time Indicators

YouTube 02 - Workaround and H264ify

YouTube 01 - Autoplay, CC, Annotations, Stable Volume, Ambient Mode, Home

I rarely (if ever) use YouTube these days. But these are all of the userscripts and userstyles I was using. A couple of these may need updated, not really sure, but the all seemed to work as of a few weeks ago when I last visited YouTube.

<del, all of the "spoilers" nested inside each other, so I'll have to post one at a time instead of all-in-one>

No clue. But my take would be this - if an admin deleted something, it was for a reason, and OTHER MEMBERS "regurgitating" deleted content is GROUNDS FOR THEIR "DISAPPEARANCE" as well.

Your obsession sounds like a mental health issue. Seek help.

Well, YES, the site *IS* compromised, PLAIN AND SIMPLE !!! WE ALL TAKE A RISK JUST BY VISITING !!! Personally, for you folks that have been affected, I *often* ask myself, "Wow! Why are they even still here! I would not continue to visit if that sh#t was happening to me!"

The user should think of it this way, by using a Google DNS server, you DOUBLE your "footprint of trackability". Your ISP *always* can track you. *ALWAYS* Regardless of whether you use their DNS or not. By using Google's DNS instead of your ISP's DNS, you voluntarily provide Google with "records" they would not have otherwise had. But in this day and age, you really cannot prevent those "records" anyway. But I am of the view that if I can configure my machine to hand out 100 "records" per day compared to other configurations handing out 9,999,999 "records" per day, then I've done the best I can.

They have been hacked before, they will be hacked again. Granted, first article I found is from a year ago, with Google ADMITTING that their DNS was hijacked. All it takes is a temporary hijack and YOUR CONFIG'S DNS CACHE to keep the "redirect" active forever (or until that cache is flushed) on YOUR CONFIG. https://umatechnology.org/googles-public-dns-servers-hijacked-traffic-redirected-for-more-than-22-minutes/

Yeah. Until proven otherwise. It's not that difficult for you to change your DNS, disable "secure DNS", FLUSH YOUR DNS CACHE, and tell us if you are still redirected (or whatever you prefer to call it). Heck, it's probably just a simple matter of FLUSHING YOUR DNS CACHE (but I would have assumed this to be "Step One" for anyone affected).

I'm a bit confused on just what is being called an "installer". Are we talking about Windows Operating System KBxx hotfixes only? I kinda have to assume that we are. If we are talking about something like Office 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, or 2010 (all of which have their own KBxx list of hotfixes), then alternate methods of DEPLOYMENT (versus "installing") is really nothing new. Heck, I've been copy-pasting my Microsoft Office "folder structure" from one machine to another (ie, when the first machine is dying and I'm about to send it to Silicon Heaven) to the replacement machine, exporting some registry keys, importing to the replacement machine, and everything works perfectly fine and I've been doing that for 20 years. Works great for Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Outlook is a different beast altogether, can be done, but not as easy. Migrating / "deploying" from one machine to another has never really technically required a "re-install". Just copy-paste and export-import. Done. And yeah, it's FASTER than "installing".

Kind of what I SUSPECTED. Can you see if the issue of redirecting (or whatever you prefer to call it) still exists if you do NOT use secure DNS? Don't forget to FLUSH YOUR DNS CACHE also.