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Top bar & Watch later

Both need a signed-in account, so they appear only when you’re signed in.

A gear button sits before your avatar and opens YouTube’s settings. The Settings entry in the sidebar goes away.

The switch is Navigation → Settings in top bar, with no options.

Kempt inserts a link to /account in the top bar’s end slot (ytd-masthead #end). The tooltip follows YouTube’s UI language.

A Watch later button sits in the action row under the video. Click it to add the video to Watch later; it fills in. Click again to remove it.

The switch is Navigation → Watch later button, with no options.

The button asks the page bridge for two things:

  • inWatchLater(id) loads the video’s playlist state with the request YouTube’s Save menu sends (playlist/get_add_to_playlist), so the button starts filled when the video is already saved.
  • setWatchLater(id, on) adds or removes the video with browse/edit_playlist on the WL playlist.

Both run in YouTube’s page with your session and sign their requests the way YouTube signs its own.

  • If YouTube changes how it signs these requests, the button stops working until Kempt is updated. The Save menu keeps working either way.