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Laughs in Firefox, which allows plug-ins in mobile. I can have all my ad blockers and video speed controllers, and anything else.

100% agree. The problem is that there are more and more features that get tugged behind the subscription paywall

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.

also its fork Tubular if you enjoy SponsorBlock

or PipePipe

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.

Yeah, this change has no practical effect on me. But removing and paywalling features is concerning nonetheless.

I'm ADHD and I can't do it. XD

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.

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.

I am not one to 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?

Idk what to tell you, a lot of youtubers talk pretty fuckin slow

I watch basically everything that isn't music or advanced mathematics at 2x speed. YouTubers talk so slowly.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Work shit.

It's for people who want to skim but not to read.

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 ad nausea. Repeating 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.

In this case, it was this video

https://youtu.be/0aQM69ZuS5M

I don't usually speed it up that much bun in this case, I wanted a 'time lapse' stile skim of the video

Not OP but informational podcast/interview type videos that are heavy on talking and long I watch at 2.25x with subtitles on.

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

Don't give them ideas

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.

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.

corporate greed

There's no way YouTube is even remotely profitable even with the massive amounts of ads on the free version..

Personally i only use youtube to doomscroll "shorts" because I don't have facebook, instagram or tik tok for that. It's really no pleasure as such, but a good way to just turn wind down.

My main issue is that most of the information and knowledge that i used to get from reading blog posts, or forum threads, has become videos, with the majority of the content being irellevant

Use Firefox and ublock Origin to remove ads.

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.

...what? Go do something else instead of watching YouTube-style content then. Read a book. Take up knitting. Do crosswords.

You can live a full life without Internet videos.

You can try Morphe on your phone and SmartTube on your TV.

The beginning‽ They've been up to shit like this for years!

Don't bother doing that. Just switch to Firefox, install uBlock Origin and you're golden.

Why not just use ad blocker?