Add Disable YouTube Hotkeys userscript

[VKrishna04]

Summary

Add Disable YouTube Hotkeys with Modern Settings Page to the YouTube userscript list.

Changes

• Use the full script title and a functional description
• Link Install directly to the current Greasy Fork userscript
• Apply established Readme and Report bug link conventions
• Clarify that blocking pauses while typing in text fields

Testing

• Downloaded userscript v5.0.1 and ran node --check
• npm ci --ignore-scripts
• npm run lint
• npm audit --audit-level=high: 0 vulnerabilities
• Lychee: 705 links checked, 609 OK, 0 errors
• GitHub Markdown rendering and balanced <details> tags

Did this cause any problems?

README-only change. Revert the added entry to restore the previous list.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR adds a new userscript entry for "Disable YouTube Hotkeys with Modern Settings Page" to the README's YouTube section.

Changes:

• Added a new collapsible details section for the "Disable YouTube Hotkeys" userscript with description, installation link, project view link, and bug report link

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[VKrishna04]

Sup @VKrishna04 can you tell me what does the userscript do? Thanks! (i.e. what are the hot keys disabled and then I can test it because left/right arrows still seek to frames)

Sorry about the delay —

Hey! Thanks for checking.

This is not just “disable numbers” — it’s a fine‑grained YouTube hotkeys blocker. The script intercepts keyboard events on youtube.com (keydown/keypress/keyup, capture phase) and, depending on the toggles you enable, it blocks specific shortcuts by calling preventDefault() + stopPropagation() (but it does NOT block anything while you’re typing in an input/textarea/contenteditable — so search/comments/chat are excluded).

Hotkeys it can block (configurable)

Timeline / seeking

• 0–9 → jump to % of timeline
• ← / → → rewind/forward (5s)
• j / l → seek −10s / +10s
• , / . → frame-by-frame navigation
• Ctrl + ← / → → chapter navigation (prev/next chapter)

Playback / UI

• Space → play/pause (optional)
• k → play/pause (optional)
• f → fullscreen (optional)
• t → theatre mode (optional)
• i → miniplayer (optional)
• m → mute/unmute (default ON)

Other YouTube shortcut panels / controls

• Shift + / (aka ?) → “Keyboard shortcuts” help overlay (optional)
• ↑ / ↓ → volume up/down (optional)
• Shift + < / Shift + > → playback speed control (optional)

(There are also extra toggles for some player “advanced” behaviors like text/window opacity, font size +/- and pan/zoom keys — they’re off by default.)

Defaults (important for your test)

By default it blocks:

• 0–9
• Ctrl+Left, Ctrl+Right
• m

…and it does NOT block left/right arrows unless you enable the “Disable Progress Forward / Rewind (← →)” toggle.

About your note (left/right still seeking)

That’s expected with default settings: left/right is not blocked by default in the current script.
If you enable the horizontal arrows toggle, then ←/→ should stop seeking (and if it still seeks after enabling it, tell me your browser + userscript manager and whether the player is focused).
And try once again after reloading.

VKrishna04,
Life Experimentalist

[bvolpato]

Friendly ping on this PR — it's been ~3 weeks since the last activity and the author (@VKrishna04) responded to Copilot's review comments but hasn't pushed updates yet.

The requested changes from Copilot are reasonable:

1. Fix the 📢 emoji usage (should be for "Discuss" links, not "View")
2. Remove redundant title repetition in the summary

Since the author seems receptive to feedback, this might just need a gentle nudge to push the fixes.

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