Why did they move the comments to the right

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• Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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/.

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  • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    On Android you can use LibreTube, NewPipe or a fork of it called Tubular.

    Or SmartTube on Android TV.

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    • Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve not encountered Privacy Guides before, but that’s a really lovely website!

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    • Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• reddthat@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is dearrow actually good? Does it work for small streamers?

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  • thomasdouwes@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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

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    • 314xel@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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    • morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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”.

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  • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It would be nice if they could automatically strip “and this happened” from titles.

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  • Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wish I put sponsorblock in sooner.

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  • Cheskaz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I didn’t for so long despite knowing about it, and now i cannot deal with YouTube without it

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    • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m so glad that ReVanced has it built in. It’s wonderful.

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• calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I recently discovered there are extensions to disable YouTube hotkeys. I personally disabled numbers 0-9, so annoying and useless.

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  • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    why are you pressing numbers while watching a video in the first place?

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    • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      cat

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    • Phegan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Gaming and accidentally alt tab

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  • Charzard4261@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t give link because:

      1. I’m on mobile and idk it’s name.
      2. I found it with a quick Google search and chose the first option. Idk if it’s even open source. It might be mining crypto for all I know.
      3. I’ll edit my original comment with link when I get to my pc.

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  • peasinspace@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    what extension? i hit those accidentally way too often

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    • peasinspace@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      looked up “youtube shortcut” in firefox’s add ons and found “disable youtube number keyboard shortcuts”

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  • soupuos@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not useless! I personally love quickly skipping the first chunk of a video with them.

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    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      wait until you find out about the arrow keys, or even better the media keys, which do 10 seconds at a time.

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’re moving comments?? Why??

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  • RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The UI department will probably get massive layoffs if they don’t change anything, so they’re forced to “”““innovate””“”.

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    • jamyang@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah. Like the Gmail login page.

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• Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• FuCensorship@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The amount of userscripts I have for YouTube is getting ridiculous…

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  • Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Invidious

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  • Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or Piped

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not as nice

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• sleepybisexual@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Invidious exists, ui is a bit strange but its fine

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  • Just_Monika@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And based on it, Freetube

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    • sleepybisexual@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s a good one.

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• EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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?

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  • Flipper@feddit.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    😱😲 that’s because these two boys are more effective.

    Every thumbnail has someone gasping over what happened in the video.

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  • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    try the trending page

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• lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  FreeTube?

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  • green_witch@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just dropping in to say FreeTube is excellent. Carry on.

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• myxi@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • jherazob@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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/

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• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is me with the last few “redesigns” of chrome. Stop adding dead space to my fuckin bookmarks!

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  • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    that’s on you for still using chrome

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  • morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    at least with chrome there’s alternatives

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  • Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Use Firefox or LibreWolf

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• Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Eww, still using the official spyware?

  Why not try out a privacy respecting frontend?
  www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/#youtube

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• pewpew@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You should also try YT Redux

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• blibla@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  invidious is a good option

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  • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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).

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    • Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can use Piped on desktop and LibreTube on Android and use a Piped account to sync your watch history, subscriptions and playlists.

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• stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I also have pockettube for categorising my subscriptions

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• BreadOven@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is privacy badger still considered good for blocking embedded Twitter stuff?

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  • captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes it works great for that.

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• alvvayson@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As a mobile user, I’m just stuck with the stock YouTube app.

  I do miss Vanced :-(

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  • bellly@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

    github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager/releases

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  • Maganra@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Look into revanced

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  • Brainsploosh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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    • brb@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      not as good as Vanced, but better than reVanced

      How does that make sense? reVanced is just Vanced on steroids

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  • isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  play with mpv and mpv sponsorblock and good.

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• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I actually had the comments on the right for only a day or two, looks like you’re part of a test batch.

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• Gestrid@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  what allows to bring subscribed tab back

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