YouTube - Pause background videos

Pause videos playing in other background tabs. When you start playback of a video in foreground tab, background playback will be paused.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Userscripts to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey to install this script.

You will need to install a user script manager extension to install this script.

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// ==UserScript==
// @name         YouTube - Pause background videos
// @namespace    q1k
// @version      1.0.1
// @description  Pause videos playing in other background tabs. When you start playback of a video in foreground tab, background playback will be paused.
// @author       q1k
// @match        *://www.youtube.com/*
// @grant        none
// @run-at       document-start
// ==/UserScript==

function findElement(selector) {
    return new Promise(function(resolve) {
        if (document.querySelector(selector)) {
            return resolve(document.querySelector(selector));
        }
        const observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {
            if (document.querySelector(selector)) {
                resolve(document.querySelector(selector));
                observer.disconnect();
            }
        });
        observer.observe(document, {
            childList: true,
            subtree: true
        });
    });
}

var video;
const channel = new BroadcastChannel("video-channel");

findElement("#player #movie_player video").then(function(el){
    video = el;
    /*if(!!(video.currentTime > 0 && !video.paused && !video.ended && video.readyState > 2)) {
        channel.postMessage("pause");
    }*/
    Object.defineProperty(el, 'isplaying', {
        get: function(){
            return !!(this.currentTime > 0 && !this.paused && !this.ended && this.readyState > 2);
        }
    });
    video.addEventListener("playing",function(){
        //start play, send pause
        if(document.hasFocus()){
            channel.postMessage("pause");
        }
    })
});

channel.addEventListener("message",function(ev){
    if(ev.data=="pause"){
        //received pause
        if(!document.hasFocus()){ //ignore if tab is active
            if(video.isplaying) {
                video.pause();
            }
        }
    }
});