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Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature
Submitted 3 weeks ago by cosmicrookie@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Danitos@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
three@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
MrSoup@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Laughs in Firefox, which allows plug-ins in mobile. I can have all my ad blockers and video speed controllers, and anything else.
Danitos@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
You should give NewPipe or Tubular (NewPipe fork with sponsor blocker) a try, it provides a better user experience.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Lol nope, out of principle I will never pay for this even if I didn’t already hate Google.
It feels so condescending to the user, so unconcerned with their agency that I could never bring myself to support this choice with even a tiny amount of money.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
100% agree. The problem is that there are more and more features that get tugged behind the subscription paywall
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 2 weeks ago
Same here. I’m sick of seeing people say stuff like “just pay for Premium bro”. Stfu. That’s like paying the mafia for “protection” from them. YouTube created these problems and now I have to pay them to fix it? Fuck no.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Download it and play it however you want in VLC.
degenerate_neutron_matter@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
It was never a free feature; they used to only allow up to 2X speed. Not that that justifies it at all of course.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Wdym? I can literally increase to 5x speed on my YouTube client for free rn
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I could also only increase the playback speed to 2x at maximum. Firefox and no YouTube specific add-ons are used.
fubarx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I can barely follow and absorb anything at 1.5-2x.
Beyond that, more power to you.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Yeah, this change has no practical effect on me. But removing features is concerning nonetheless.
knexcar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Speeds over 2x were never a free feature, they just used to not be an option at all.
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m ADHD and I can’t do it. XD
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
For extremely slow speakers 3x is possible.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yeah, 2x is normally my limit, sometimes 2.5x. Very occasionally there will be content that gets 3x or more, but it’s incredibly rare. It has to be something pretty slow.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Stallman speeches are optimal at 2.5-3x
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Some lectures and instruction videos are only watchable at 4x or higher.
Luckily there’s extensions and alternative apps that provide a much better user experience than the default one, including being able to increase playback speed as much as you want.
Kissaki@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
That’s so stupid it feels like satire. But I guess it’s not too surprising.
I have my own speed control that I can adjust or enter max speed for.
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wait until they find some stupid way to lock down Chrome extensions. I just know they will.
optissima@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
This extension is for Firefox. Get off the chrome platform in all the places you can
AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
NewPipe
janus2@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
also its fork Tubular if you enjoy SponsorBlock
hornedfiend@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
or PipePipe
tal@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
You can use
yt-dlpto download it and play it in whatever movie player you want that supports variable speeds, unless and until YouTube cracks down on downloading.cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I use jdownloader2. I think it uses yt-dl on the backend though? Like the original yt-dl. I’m not sure.
I was curious so I downloaded the Mac version of yt-dlp (as I am on Mac), couldn’t get it to run. And I’m comfortable with the command line.
YouTube kinda is cracking down on downloading though. If a video is marked as adult (you need to sign in to view it), it can’t be downloaded. A lot of “official videos” (like trailers from the studio) can’t be downloaded. Subtitles can’t be downloaded. That’s in jd2. Not sure about yt-dlp.
tal@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I think it uses yt-dl on the backend though? Like the original yt-dl.
You’re probably thinking of
youtube-dl. I’d guess that it most-likely used that at one point, but probably switched toyt-dlpwhen YouTube started throttling single-stream downloads.Koarnine@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Yt-dlp all those work, though you may need log in (cookie) for ‘adult’ content
But i dl with subtitles every time ‘–write-auto-subs’ or ‘–write-subs en’ or ‘all’, also got ‘–convert-subs srt’ yt-dlp the goat
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Is now a paid feature?
Was playback over 2x (through the official app) ever supported for free?Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
$ yt-dlp <URL>
apftwb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am not one for fear the terminal, but do people actually use this to browse YT? What does this workflow look like? Searching video URLs, manually copying them into this cli, and then opening the downloaded file?
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, it isn’t useful to browse.
I use it for grabbing low quality music and ‘subscribing’ to various channels (checks and downloads new videos every 10m) in order to avoid having to give the algorithm my eyeballs.
If you just want to scroll, something like FreeTube would do what you want. It blocks ads and has sponsorblock built-in. You can subscribe to videos via the app (which is all stored locally, not in any account, you don’t have to log-in.)
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Check out MeTube. It is just a wrapper for ytp-dl. You can set extention in a way that only icon needs to be clicked. Everything is automated. No need to do anything in CLI.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Why and what type of videos are you watching at 2x speed?
Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Idk what to tell you, a lot of youtubers talk pretty fuckin slow
deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Listening to people talk faster gives me anxiety. It’s the closest thing (I guess) to feeling like I have ADHD. Like I’ve done a bunch of speed but without any of the dopaminergic effects.
I don’t know how anybody does it to be quite honest. Even putting a podcast on 1.25x is too much.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I watch basically everything that isn’t music or advanced mathematics at 2x speed. YouTubers talk so slowly.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
That’s what I wanted to know. Until I realised I don’t care how people watch YouTube and that it’s more annoying to me that Google is paywalling something that costs them nothing to implement.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I watch most IT/Technical videos at 1.5-2x speed. Especially tutorial style videos. Most creators use a very long and drawn out way of speaking in order to keep the viewer on the same page, but most of the time I know the core concepts already, so I don’t need the super detailed parts only the barebones.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This was a video of a machine treating pomegranate seeds 🤷 don’t ask
But it was filmed in a lot of detail and there was no need to watch the whole thing. The creators should probably have made a highlights video instead.
tal@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I don’t know what YouTube does when you increase playback speed, but a lot of people who listen to podcast-type material or lectures will use software that has the ability to time-stretch the playback without changing the pitch. That is, we can often understand people perfectly well speaking more quickly than they actually do.
I imagine that some people are most-likely looking at content of that sort on YouTube.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That’s interesting they can keep the pitch. Thanks
yesman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s for people who want to skim but not to read.
underisk@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I would give anything to skim an article rather than sit through a 10 minute video for the one thing I need to know.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Work shit.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That i can see
londos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
$(‘video’).playbackRate = 3;
ygurin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah Google has been “toll-bridging” features into paid-premium since removal of ability to pause with screen off in YouTube.
I wouldnt be surprised if corporate greed forces them to remove pausing videos altogether. Not premium can’t pause!
Scrollone@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
I don’t care when my only way to watch YouTube it’s either:
- on Firefox with uBlock Origin
- on ReVanced
- on SmartTube (for Android TV)
- by downloading the video through yt-dlp
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is why I am just going to pay networks of my favorite youtubers directly when YouTube finally gets too bad to use. I’m never paying for RedTube or whatever the fuck porny ass name their premium service has so that Google gets most of my money and Mr beast gets a cut while the people I actually watch get nothing. I pay for Dropout already and that shit is so much better than Netflix and other services. Sure it’s low budget but it’s still better than the slop all the big companies are shoveling out of their troughs.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Then it’ll become a premium feature to choose your videos otherwise you’ll have to consult a personalised video guide to see when the videos you want to watch will be playing.
ygurin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Pretty much a traditional tv
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t give them ideas
Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
corporate greed
There’s no way YouTube is even remotely profitable even with the massive amounts of ads on the free version…
SippyCup@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’re almost certainly one of the more profitable Google services or they’d have been cut loose by now.
Google serves ads, YouTube is a great platform for them to serve ads, and they don’t even have to pay content creators that much, because they serve their own ads. The biggest expense is probably bandwidth and memory, which Google owns enough of to sell off bits they aren’t using.
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What do you watch on that speed? Genuine question, not saying it’s not a shitty arbitrary restriction
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Not OP but informational podcast/interview type videos that are heavy on talking and long I watch at 2.25x with subtitles on.
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Interesting, I do 1.5x for certain podcasts and tabletop like Critical Role, but even at that speed I miss things and lose comprehension (although I am usually multitasking as well)
Krudler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For me personally, until a month ago I had no idea why people would prefer to watch at faster speed.
Then I was assigned 10 hours of training at work, and it was all the worst fucking videos you’ve ever seen, no editing for clarity or brevity, points being repeated at nausea. Repeated footage. And it’s not like I could skip vast portions of it, I never knew when a little piece of key information would be snuck in which was in the knowledge test.
Finally said to myself fuck this and I put it on 2x. I found it kind of life-changing in that moment and I’m going to consider using faster watch speeds from now on.
1984@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Ive experienced that too :) These companies that make training videos for employees, seems like anyone could succeed there. Literally no quality, but thats fine, the manager gets his checkbox checked, all employees trained.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In this case, it was this video
I don’t usually speed it up that much bun in this case, I wanted a ‘time lapse’ stile skim of the video
pir8t0x@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
So infuriating… Sadly, I can’t even boycott YouTube because of how much good content it has
Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I pay for premium in a group of 6. We pay like 6€ each and get YouTube Music on top.
People are too used to free stuff. The amount of bandwidth YouTube requires is absolutely mindboggingly huge and can’t possibly be profitable.
ptu@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Youtube ad revenue: 8,9 billion USD
Total profit from services: 30,9 billion USD
Yeah bandwidth is not that expensive
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
bandwidth should be nationalized as a public utility so people can compete easier tbh
pir8t0x@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Yeah, it’s generally not a profitable business. But not when people make accounts, use those accounts to watch content and also comment and like-dislike content. They track your every move. They’re an ad company and that’s how they make a profit. I would have paid a subscription for the service if they were a honest company and didn’t invade other people’s privacy without their permission.
Look man, there are a lot of ways to use YouTube and have a great experience. You don’t need to pay money to them just to have a good experience. Just use YouTube in Brave Browser or with an ad-block enabled 🤷 Well, just my suggestion. You’re free to do as you like
LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Just gonna leave this here (for desktop at least): github.com/codebicycle/videospeed
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Been like this for awhile now.
For android use revanced or morphe
For browser use firefox and video speed controller
timestatic@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Use FreeTube and Tubular lmao
PillowD@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They found out a simple tampermonkey script could speed the adds up to 16x
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I am at the point where you tube is now a rare choice. I am tired of the stupid games and adblock and trying to not log in.
Fuck it, I can do without.
overat8@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Not sure if this still works but, the YouTube version I had, mobile YouTube vanced, there’s a loophole to bypass the “premium 2x speed”. It basically getting to video settings as quickly as possible.
These steps work on the YouTube vanced app on android. I don’t know what versions you’re on so it may not work.
When you open a video immediately open the video settings then click your playback settings, then select the 2x speed. On android, YouTube video buffer briefly before loading up at the very beginning, and if you successfully manage to click the playback settings it should load the old YouTube playback settings where the it listed the different speed in a column. If not, as in you were too slow to open the video settings, you can always try again. You just have to close the video and open it again using YouTube history, and again try getting to the video playback settings asap.
stepan@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
Use Revanced if you’re on android
MrKoyun@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
revanced
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is only the beginning…
solidheron@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I was able to do 2x speed on brave browser app on my phone. Must be ad or something
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I skip ads by just hitting f5 until they stop.
guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 2 weeks ago
I highly recommend the extension “Enhancer for YouTube” by Max RF, it adds a shit Tom of qol features
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Man, everything about the US is getting worse. Enshitification Nation.
foggy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not if you know JavaScript…
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
“you wouldn’t download a car” meme, with “download” replaced with “document.querySelector(‘video’).playbackRate = 4;” and “car” replaced with “video on youtube”
via this comment from @Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml