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Makes it so that the back button always works in YouTube polymer interface when using non-Chromium browsers. Without this userscript, the currently playing video reloads on pressing the back button.
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Fix YouTube back button.js
// ==UserScript==
// @name Fix back button on YouTube
// @description Fixes the back button in YouTube Polymer for non-Chromium browsers
// @match https://*.youtube.com/*
// ==/UserScript==
globalThis.removeEventListener("popstate", getEventListeners(globalThis)["popstate"][0]["listener"])
document.body.addEventListener("yt-history-pop", () => window.location.href = document.location.href)
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