- Enhancer for Youtube
- uBlock Origin
- CustomTube
- Return YouTube Dislikes
- Annotations Restored
- SponsorBlock
- DeArrow
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.
Then I decided that it would be silly to spend any money on a 1st Gen Apple Vision.
FreeTube? Or are you watching on your phone?
Just dropping in to say FreeTube is excellent. Carry on.
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””“”.
Yeah. Like the Gmail login page.
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.
Also I don’t why so many de-arrow contributors feel the need to use the word “explaining” at the start of every title. Like “how VR has changed over the years is fine”, you don’t need to make it “Explaining how VR has changed over the years”.
I absolutely prefer the latter, adding “Explaining” makes it a readable title for me that I won’t skip over.
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.
You can exclude channels from dearrow, do that with him
Yeah, I’d really prefer something that supplements the titles rather than replacing them. If the title asks a question or is deliberately vague about a particular piece of information then a plugin that provided the answer (while still leaving the original title and thumbnail in place) could be useful, but as it is I shut off dearrow after a few minutes. It was just making things worse.
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.
It really only serves to perpetuate the behaviour you’re trying to avoid cuz to the creator there’s still views coming in.
Just my two cents.
I actually had the comments on the right for only a day or two, looks like you’re part of a test batch.
Is privacy badger still considered good for blocking embedded Twitter stuff?
Yes it works great for that.
Eww, still using the official spyware?
Why not try out a privacy respecting frontend?
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/#youtubeAnyone know of a TamperMonkey addon to get the old YouTube UI back? Need to bookmark it for whenever YouTube makes the change on my account.
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.
As a mobile user, I’m just stuck with the stock YouTube app.
I do miss Vanced :-(
Mozilla on mobile lets you watch stuff in browser and you can get ublock as well! It also lets you play videos while it’s running in the background again. It’s truly heaven.
I use Newpipe, it’s not as good as Vanced, but better than reVanced. And good enough that I recoil in horror at the stock app.
I use the Newpipe Sponsorblock fork, but use the main YouTube client to find content then “share” it to Newpipe. A little fiddly as the share dialog is built to be hostile.
Look into revanced
Have you tried revanced?
It took me a minute to figure out but thats bc im a dirt-eating cave dweller, so if you arent that you shouldnt have any trouble :3
Look into ReVanced (Android only). Get yourself a copy of the recommended YouTube apk version from apkmirror as specified in the patch manager. Load it from the internal storage, patch it right on your phone and install. Follow the prompts to sign in with your YT account on load. Good as new. The process got simplified, so it’s easier than ever. Also, they’re pretty on top of the emerging api changes and bugs. If you need more details, DM me. I’ll try to reply promptly.
Invidious
Or Piped
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/.
I’ve not encountered Privacy Guides before, but that’s a really lovely website!
It’s an awesome website with an awesome community. Definitely check out their Lemmy community [email protected] and the forum discuss.privacyguides.net
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, ReVanced doesn’t need root since it patches the APK before you install the app.
Oh yeah I completely forgot about SmartTube. I left out ReVanced on purpose, because it still uses the proprietary YouTube app. But if you’re ok with this, there’s also uYouPlus for iOS.
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
Without tracking, it recommends stuff based on the current video. No idea how different the results might be if you have whole history for them to evaluate
That’s… Something. It would still give me cool stuff I guess. I might start looking into this
play with mpv and mpv sponsorblock and good.
Play with mpv is the only way I can have youtube hw acceleration on my laptop
Invidious exists, ui is a bit strange but its fine
And based on it, Freetube
I wish I installed sponsorblock sooner.
I’m so glad that ReVanced has it built in. It’s wonderful.
I didn’t for so long despite knowing about it, and now i cannot deal with YouTube without it
I know about it but don’t have it installed. What am I missing? If I want to skip a sponsorship I just press my arrow keys so I don’t see the big deal.
Imagine that being automatic. There is no interruption at all.
just a very strange cut
It’s all crowdsourced. Users can submit labeled segements (intro/intermission, sponsor, self-promotion, non-music, filler, etc.) and you can adjust the client side settings to either prompt to skip, automatically skip, or ignore segments for those categories. It’s a huge time saver.
SponsorBlock automatically skips the entire sponsorship as soon as it starts, so a lot of the time you wouldn’t even know it was there if you didn’t see the green section of the playback bar.
It’s not just for sponsorships, either. You can set it to skip intro animations, reminders to subscribe, self promotion, etc.
