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They probably moved the comments to the right to make the layout cleaner on bigger screens. If you’re using all those extensions, you might also like the official apk download for the full experience.
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
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.
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”.
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 would be nice if they could automatically strip “and this happened” from titles.
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 wish I put sponsorblock in sooner.
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.
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.
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.
Gaming and accidentally alt tab
You can’t just say that and not give a link! I use quite a few of the hotkeys, but those ones in particular cause me grief. If you have an extension that lets you pick and chose, I beg you to save us from that pain.
I don’t give link because:
what extension? i hit those accidentally way too often
looked up “youtube shortcut” in firefox’s add ons and found “disable youtube number keyboard shortcuts”
Not useless! I personally love quickly skipping the first chunk of a video with them.
wait until you find out about the arrow keys, or even better the media keys, which do 10 seconds at a time.
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.
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.
The amount of userscripts I have for YouTube is getting ridiculous…
You can use Invidious or Piped. These have a much better, less bloated UI and Piped comes with SponsorBlock and DeArrow built in. You also don’t get any ads or Google trackers.
Invidious
Or Piped
Not as nice
Invidious exists, ui is a bit strange but its fine
And based on it, Freetube
That’s a good one.
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.
try the trending page
Just dropping in to say FreeTube is excellent. Carry on.
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.
HOWEVER, there’s cases where you do want to be able to like and comment: My main use case for Youtube these days is following crafters, people who make awesome stuff. And i do want to like and comment on those videos, not just for the obvious feedback to them but also to give them a hand in spreading the word of their stuff.
There’s even a firefox addon that lets you open videos in mpv with one click: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ff2mpv/
On macOS, I recommend a fork of mpv called IINA. It also has a Firefox addon: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/open-in-iina-x/
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.
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
Eww, still using the official spyware?
Why not try out a privacy respecting frontend?
www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/#youtube
You should also try YT Redux
invidious is a good option
The only downsides are you can’t interact with the video (like and comment) and your watch history isn’t synced to your phone (I use revanced).
I also have pockettube for categorising my subscriptions
Is privacy badger still considered good for blocking embedded Twitter stuff?
Yes it works great for that.
As a mobile user, I’m just stuck with the stock YouTube app.
I do miss Vanced :-(
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
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.
not as good as Vanced, but better than reVanced
How does that make sense? reVanced is just Vanced on steroids
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.
Look into ReVanced. Get yourself a copy of the recommended YouTube apk version as shown in the manager from apkmirror. Load it from the internal storage, patch it right on your phone and install. 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.
play with mpv and mpv sponsorblock and good.
I actually had the comments on the right for only a day or two, looks like you’re part of a test batch.
Anyone 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.
what allows to bring subscribed tab back
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
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: gonzoknows.com/posts/yattee/.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 2 years ago
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
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 years ago
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
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I think randomness seems to work better than their algorithm. Youtube didn’t recommend Cayley Odle because of anything I’d watched before, but … damn.
dan@upvote.au 2 years ago
Or SmartTube on Android TV.
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
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.
dojan@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I’ve not encountered Privacy Guides before, but that’s a really lovely website!
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
It’s an awesome website with an awesome community. Definitely check out their Lemmy community !privacyguides@lemmy.one and the forum discuss.privacyguides.net