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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/.

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

I wish I installed sponsorblock sooner.

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

EDIT: the extension I use is Disable YouTube Seek by Number

I didn't even check if it is open source. So if it's secretly a Bitcoin miner don't blame me.

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

They're moving comments?? Why??

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.

Invidious

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?

Invidious exists, ui is a bit strange but its fine

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.

Edit: found this for sponser-block support.

FreeTube? Or are you watching on your phone?

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.

You can replace some of them with a userstyle extension (not Stylish, that tracks you) and applying a style someone else already made.

You should also try YT Redux

invidious is a good option

I also have pockettube for categorising my subscriptions

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