You Should Know @lemmy.world Oka @sopuli.xyz 2w ago

YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube

Why YSK: Youtube's enshittification creates an abysmal experience. There's a list of Chrome extensions I've collected over the years that each fix an aspect of Youtube to bring back a genuine experience. I've seen in comments people mention one or two of these at a time, so this is a pack that contains everything you could need, and more.

Sample:

Essential Plugins:

Ghostery: Blocks trackers and ads
uBlock Origin: Blocks In-video ads
SponsorBlock: Skips in-video sponsor segments
Return Youtube Dislike: Returns the dislike button
DeArrow: Better titles and thumbnails, removes clickbait
Youtube Redux: Returns youtube to the older style
Style Bot: This tool allows you to edit CSS. With a bit of setup, you can use it to block sponsored videos from appearing in our video suggestions:

Open Stylebot options
Styles > New Style

URL: Youtube.com

CSS (copy and paste):

ytd-ad-slot-renderer,
ytd-rich-item-renderer:has(
  > #content
    > ytd-ad-slot-renderer
){
  display: none;
}

Save Style and Refresh Youtube

Optional:

Dark Reader: Dark mode on any web page (and you can toggle it per page as well)
Video Speed Controller: More control over video speed

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How well does sponsor block work?

I wrote a small script that filtered it by grabbing the transcription, uploading it to chatgpt through api, analyzing and sending back timestamps of suspected ads.

These were overlayed on the video scroll bar in yellow blocks. As the video played it skipped these blocks altogether.

It was fun to build and worked well. Now I'm on Firefox and would like something similar....
- It works really good.
  
  Any channel with constant 10k views typically get a submission within a day, channels with 1mil views typically get submissions within the hour.
  
  Its not hard to submit times your self, its all built in to the player bar.
  
  There are multiple categories that you can choose what get automatically skipped or not.
  
  Some categories are; sponser, self-promotion, into/recap, credits, filler/tangents, non-music (for music videos) and highlight, which is a marker showing where the "point" of the video is.
- Sponsor block just uses crowd sourced submissions people vote on. No reason an ai bot couldn't submit entries too, if they're good they'll get upvoted
- I run isponsorblocktv in docker to mute/skip ads and sponsor segments on my smart TV and it works beautifully.
- Reminds me of this: https://butter.sonnet.io/
  
  Which also doesn't have a Firefox version, but I was always kinda curious about.
  
  Actually, is that your project? Lol, you mentioned yellow blocks which made me think of butter.

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