GrabAnyMedia alternative? (manifest v2 extension issue)
Most of the threads I've come across regarding old v2 extensions being disabled by Chrome/Brave have been locked since they're relatively out of date and none of the tricks they've suggested have worked out for me thus far, so I'm posting this as a Hail Mary of sorts.
Years ago I came across an extension called GrabAnyMedia which I used practically daily (in Windows 11). Most of its functionality was akin to things like VideoDownloadHelper or similar streaming video extensions, but the one function I relied on it for was the "Isolate Player" item from the right-click menu. Not only would it remove all of the garbage UI/other elements around a video but it also had the added benefit of bypassing some of those sites where you can watch for a limited amount of time (2-5 minutes) as a preview before it would stop, forcing you to refresh the window to watch another limited amount of time.
Unfortunately the author of the extension stopped updating it years ago as far as I can tell and did not respond to an email regarding its future, so I've been fruitlessly searching for an alternative or, failing that, a way of updating the version I have so that Chrome (or Brave) would accept it. Even though Chrome started blocking v2 extensions a while ago Brave was still allowing me to use it up until the most recent update in the past day or so which broke it completely.
In the absence of an alternative, is there a currently working method for forcing Chrome/Brave to allow outdated v2 extensions?
Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer and I apologize if this post is formatted incorrectly. I don't post frequently.