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Change the Playback Speed of any Online Video

For every HTML Video element, you can change the playback speed, even if there are no control buttons for this funcionality. This works for every modern website including Netflix or Youtube. Just open the browser console by hitting f12 on your keyboard, paste the following snippet and hit enter.

document.querySelector('video').playbackRate = 1.3; 

Of course you can change the value to anything you want. More information on video manipulation on MDN


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