YouTube has started testing out a new style of HTML player. The new player is a lot more simplistic and modern.
The new player is has a semi transparent bottom bar along with different and new animations and icons! The new player is still in testing mode and If you decide to use the new player be sure to keep in-mind that the player is not finished and is still being worked on.
From my own opinion I feel like that new player still needs a bit work on like that fact that the video title and some player elements stay blurry and don’t scale properly while in fullscreen mode.
Ads on the new player just fine but the new cars UI is just not great and glitches out the whole player at times. Annotations also are not existent in the new player hinting at a fact that YouTube might be ditching the annotation system.
If you want to try out the player yourself it’s really easy all you need to do is install the EditThisCookie plugin on chrome and when you go to youtube.com click on the plugin in the toolbar and find “VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE” and change it’s value to
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from whatever it already is and save.
Next time you open a YouTube video it will load the new player! Have fun trying out the player and keep in mind that it’s still pre-beta.
If you want to go back to the original player then remove everything in the value box of “VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE” and save.
UPDATE: YouTube has made a full move to the new player. There is no need to do this anymore!