Thankfully there are better frontends for many social media sites. For YouTube, you can use Piped and Invidious. LibRedirect is a browser addon that automatically redirects all YouTube links to your selected frontend. If you want a native desktop app, check out FreeTube. On Android you can use LibreTube, NewPipe or a fork of it called Tubular. On iOS, you can configure Yattee to work with Piped and Invidious, this guide explains it: https://gonzoknows.com/posts/yattee/.
Doesn't piped completely remove the tracking and what not? Which.. I know it sounds bad but I want that. YouTube's algorithm honestly gives me some really cool shit based on what I've watched
On Android you can use LibreTube, NewPipe or a fork of it called Tubular.
Or SmartTube on Android TV.
On Android, there's also ReVanced which lets you apply patches to a bunch of apps, not just YouTube. Unlike some other ways of patching apps (like Magisk modules), ReVanced doesn't need root since it patches the APK before you install the app.
Is dearrow actually good? Does it work for small streamers?
It often overcorrects, like not every shitpost really needs a title that sounds like a news article. But for some really clickbaity YouTubers (most) it makes the titles much more usable. The titles are submitted by users, so if the streamer is very small there might be no one to write the titles.
Tech Connections is a great example imo
"This 90s Microwave is Better Than Yours" is clickbait sure, but it's also literally the point of the video. It got corrected to something like "review of the Panasonic yadda yadda from 1996" and like, that's a less accurate title, guys, it's not actually a review of old kitchen stuff lol
Yeah, that is annoying. But for the "You won't BELIEVE what this microwave can do! 🤯🤯🤯" or worse the "This appliance from the 90s is going to REVOLUTIONIZE your kitchen!" at least become something that gives you some idea if you want to watch. Unfortunately some good videos are hidden behind shitty titles I otherwise wouldn't click.
Not technology connections obviously, their titles are fine.
He’s great. And active on Mastodon.
It's been a while since I watched his videos, looks like my day off is planed out.
Hmm. Interesting extension. But for me, not being a heavy Youtube consumer, think I prefer to see the original title and clickbait thumbnail so I can avoid the over-the-top clickbaity stuff easier and not waste my time or give them bastards a view.
The main use is replacing thumbnail by a random or user-submitted timeframe. Titles can be converted to Sentence case to get rid of all caps words and emojis are removed. Titles can also be replaced by user-submitted alternatives.
I wish I installed sponsorblock sooner.
I didn't for so long despite knowing about it, and now i cannot deal with YouTube without it
I'm so glad that ReVanced has it built in. It's wonderful.
I recently discovered there are extensions to disable YouTube hotkeys. I personally disabled numbers 0-9, so annoying and useless.
EDIT: the extension I use is Disable YouTube Seek by Number
I didn't even check if it is open source. So if it's secretly a Bitcoin miner don't blame me.
why are you pressing numbers while watching a video in the first place?
Got 2 monitors. Sometimes I think I have another program focused, but turns out YouTube was focused. The other program also has 0-9 as keybinds (or just writing a number). Now the video jumped to a random timestamp.
Had this happen to me many times 🥲
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The amount of userscripts I have for YouTube is getting ridiculous...
They're moving comments?? Why??
The UI department will probably get massive layoffs if they don't change anything, so they're forced to """"innovate"""".
Invidious
When Christian Selig announced his independent Apple Vision YouTube App, I thought twice about actually getting one, just so I would’t have to use YouTubes ridiculous Application and Web UIs.
@christianselig@mastodon.social
Then I decided that it would be silly to spend any money on a 1st Gen Apple Vision.
Invidious exists, ui is a bit strange but its fine
And based on it, Freetube
Come to think about it, it's been ages since I've seen or at least noticed a red arrow thumbnail. Is that just me or are they in decline?
😱😲 that's because these two boys are more effective.
Every thumbnail has someone gasping over what happened in the video.
I don't care about video comments anymore; in my experience it was filled with attention-seeking content and incels trying to look cool. It's also full of bots in the reply sections.
Instead, I use mpv media player to watch YouTube. I pick a video off my recommendations or the subscription page then I copy the video link and then I just have to do mpv <video link> in my terminal. It's also much faster on my low-end PC.
It doesn't have sponser-block support, but it does have ad-blocker. I haven't really checked sponser-block support yet either.
Edit: found this for sponser-block support.
for the longest time the annotations switch in the settings menu existed, up until like 2018 i wanna say? They removed annotations in 2016 iirc, may have been 2018, and i'm fuzzing the years, it's been a hot while give me some slack.
Still sad about annotations.
You can replace some of them with a userstyle extension (not Stylish, that tracks you) and applying a style someone else already made.
FreeTube? Or are you watching on your phone?
Just dropping in to say FreeTube is excellent. Carry on.
invidious is a good option
You should also try YT Redux
I also have pockettube for categorising my subscriptions
This is me with the last few “redesigns” of chrome. Stop adding dead space to my fuckin bookmarks!
that's on you for still using chrome
at least with chrome there's alternatives
Use Firefox or LibreWolf
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