I'm writing a Chrome extension so I need to be able to listen for changes in the YouTube URL (i.e., see that you switched videos). YouTube makes this hard because with its HTML5 video player there is no full page reload, there is no URL fragment change (cannot listen for hashchange event as other answers have suggested). Listening for pushState also doesn't work. I've spent a lot of time looking for answers here on SO and all the ones I've seen thus far (except for one -- that I really don't want to use) don't work.
The only answer I've seen that works is setting a timeout to run every second to see if the URL changed (ugly!).
Edit: The possible duplicate question is a totally different question--one dealing with listening to URL changes the other dealing with getting the extension to load.
Question: How can I detect URL changes in YouTube's HTML5 video player without polling?