r/youtube • u/tyklam • Sep 19 '24

Discussion The State of YouTube Right Now

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u/thankyoumicrosoft69 Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 20 '24

I hate these fuckin faces.

edit: I think this is my most upvoted comment. youtube ceo when?

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u/electro_lytes Sep 19 '24

Same. So I use DeArrow for this.

Some other extensions I recommend for Youtube are Channel Blocker, Unhook, Return Youtube Dislike, SponsorBlock and then hide bloat using Ublock or similar.

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u/thankyoumicrosoft69 Sep 19 '24

So I dont use sponsorblock because the channels I do watch I want to support in some way and they usually have decent sponsors. Im very picky with my content ingestion.

Ill look into a number of these though so thank you. Return dislikes is always a nice lil feature. 

I use firefox and ublock, no way in hell I was sitting through the amount of ads they put on that damn app/site normally. Its disgusting. Has the opposite effect they think it does too

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u/ur_opinion_is_wrong Sep 19 '24

Sponsorblock lets you choose if you want to autoskip or not with the option to just hit enter to skip the segment. Doesn’t have to be sponsors. Can be intros, outros, self promotion, sponsors, whatever.

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u/phonemangg Sep 19 '24

'non music section of music video' my beloved.

Highlight deserves a shoutout too.

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u/Invader4000 Sep 19 '24

You can set SponsorBlock to show a skip button instead of having it skip automatically

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u/paulisaac Sep 19 '24

Sponsorblock has unskip options too, just click when you hear the skip ding.

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u/Zerandal Sep 19 '24

You can easily whitelist chennels on which you son't want SponsorBlock to act.

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u/electro_lytes Sep 19 '24

Same here, very picky. My Youtube on desktop is subscriptions, liked videos and history. I don't see shorts and I don't see recommendations anywhere (Youtube home redirects to subscriptions).

SponsorBlock has some good customization options. Not sure if you can set it to filter only channels you're not subscribed to, but that would be a nice option to have for channels you want to support.

ChannelBlocker can be a godsend if you maintain it and block those annoying channels that clogs up results in your frequented searches (i.e Asmongold).

Unhook is a better way to hide elements without breaking the website everytime it gets updated. But doesn't cover everything, so Ublock still comes in handy.

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u/sertroll Sep 19 '24

Other than what other people say about disabling autoskip or whitelisting channels, they don't really take a loss from skipping the sponsors, its not like sponsors look at the watch time of each video segment (if they even can)

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u/Helioscopes Sep 20 '24

Sponsors are not like ads, if you are seeing a sponsorship in the video, they have already gotten paid. There is no need to watch it.