diff --git a/gdrive-userscript/cytube-google-drive.user.js b/gdrive-userscript/cytube-google-drive.user.js
index 6add91fa..cc70a457 100644
--- a/gdrive-userscript/cytube-google-drive.user.js
+++ b/gdrive-userscript/cytube-google-drive.user.js
@@ -11,10 +11,6 @@
 // ==/UserScript==
 
 (function () {
-    if (!unsafeWindow.enableCyTubeGoogleDriveUserscript) {
-        return;
-    }
-
     function debug(message) {
         if (!unsafeWindow.enableCyTubeGoogleDriveUserscriptDebug) {
             return;
@@ -152,4 +148,5 @@
 
     unsafeWindow.GoogleDrivePlayer = GoogleDrivePlayer;
     unsafeWindow.console.log('Initialized userscript Google Drive player');
+    unsafeWindow.hasDriveUserscript = true;
 })();
diff --git a/player/update.coffee b/player/update.coffee
index 20b528cb..291fe81f 100644
--- a/player/update.coffee
+++ b/player/update.coffee
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ window.loadMediaPlayer = (data) ->
             console.error e
     else if data.type is 'gd'
         try
-            if data.meta.html5hack
+            if data.meta.html5hack or window.hasDriveUserscript
                 window.PLAYER = new window.GoogleDrivePlayer(data)
             else
                 window.PLAYER = new GoogleDriveYouTubePlayer(data)
diff --git a/www/js/data.js b/www/js/data.js
index 8a38b061..75acd277 100644
--- a/www/js/data.js
+++ b/www/js/data.js
@@ -217,5 +217,4 @@ function eraseCookie(name) {
 /* to be implemented in callbacks.js */
 function setupCallbacks() { }
 
-window.enableCyTubeGoogleDriveUserscript = true;
-window.enableCyTubeGoogleDriveUserscriptDebug = true;
+window.enableCyTubeGoogleDriveUserscriptDebug = getOrDefault("cytube_drive_debug", false);
diff --git a/www/js/player.js b/www/js/player.js
index 395dd53c..ec972b8f 100644
--- a/www/js/player.js
+++ b/www/js/player.js
@@ -1358,7 +1358,7 @@
       }
     } else if (data.type === 'gd') {
       try {
-        if (data.meta.html5hack) {
+        if (data.meta.html5hack || window.hasDriveUserscript) {
           return window.PLAYER = new window.GoogleDrivePlayer(data);
         } else {
           return window.PLAYER = new GoogleDriveYouTubePlayer(data);