Ah craaaaaaaap. No, all I saw is removing the support for Vimeo and changing the names etc., and I didn't understand that VBPF didn't work for playlists, hence the rationale behind a fork. I didn't look through the whole commit; I think my eyes just glazed over after reading all the branding changes and seeing Vimeo support dropped.

When I read:

Separate add-on built on Video Background Play Fix (MIT) by Timothy Guan-tin Chien and Jan Henning. New name, id and icon. With Firefox for Android in the background, YouTube moves to the next video but never starts it; a watchdog calls the player's playVideo() when it is stuck. Tested on a Galaxy A14 with Firefox 157. Vimeo removed (untested).

I saw:

• "Separate add-on." So it's a fork.
• "New name, id and icon." So changing the branding.
• "With Firefox for Android in the background, YouTube moves to the next video but never starts it." As someone who uses NewPipe, I mistook this as one of the base problems VBPF was addressing and this as just reiterating what the extension is doing. I don't know how, because rereading it, that doesn't make any sense, but that's how I read it at the time.

@lagudafuad@lemmy.world, I owe you a serious apology. There's no reason I should've been this careless, especially when I was so aggressive. I've downvoted my own comments and will be amending them.