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Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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Post by mendelk »

kmiroslav wrote: post #68
virtualized wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is my personal experience as a YouTube user: - There are these weirdly looking fixed (Googleish) bars for no other reason than to steal my screen space. - Recommendations are mostly awful (10 things that will shock you!) or videos I have already watched. - The subscription to a whole channel is a dumb concept. I usually care only about specific series of videos, not the whole channel. Example: New movie reviews,…

I'll add: - Keyboard shortcuts to increase/decrease the speed (shortcuts for all controls, really)

There are shortcuts to change the speed! > to increase, and < to decrease.

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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Post by rasz_pl »

flnz wrote: post #83
virtualized wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is my personal experience as a YouTube user: - There are these weirdly looking fixed (Googleish) bars for no other reason than to steal my screen space. - Recommendations are mostly awful (10 things that will shock you!) or videos I have already watched. - The subscription to a whole channel is a dumb concept. I usually care only about specific series of videos, not the whole channel. Example: New movie reviews,…

- Obvious most annoying missing feature: You cannot search your history

afaik you can export and download json with your YT history as part of 'everything Google spied on me' thanks to EU privacy recommendation/directive/law

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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Post by RUG3Y »

tnorthcutt wrote: post #51
roansh wrote: post #44

Why does it need permission to Read and Change the data on _all_ of the websites that a user visits? There are so many cool extensions but most of them need access to every single domain - even if its functionality doesn't need it. Which is what keeps me (and probably a lot many other people) away from installing them.

I opened a PR to limit permissions to youtube.com; hopefully it will get merged: https://github.com/darajava/youtube-smooth/pull/24

If your PR is merged, then I will try this out.

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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Post by chapium »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #72
witty_username wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I can only use YouTube on my Desktops because that's where the ad blocker works. Why? The ads aren't that bad. > There are wrong defaults like showing annotations or autoplay. From a business perspective, autoplay is good as it leads to more videos being watched.

> Why? The ads aren't that bad. They really are. On desktop they're unskippable (unless you reload - often 10+ times to get something short enough or no ad), they're never relevant or interesting, they're ridiculously long (often over a minute, I've seen them significantly longer than the video). They're noise, and the signal/noise ratio is worse than I've ever seen on TV. If a video's longer than about 10 minutes so…

I find most adds can be skipped, but if you enable adblock they are unskippable.

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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Post by enibundo »

andy_ppp wrote: post #7

I mean YouTube UI is a disgrace really, what is it about big companies that stop them from being able to do design properly (even Apple post Jobs is starting to experience this).

That is probably made on porpuse because of their view on user experience is based on "clicking videos". So they want you to click from video to video rather than search your stuff directly.

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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Post by yonilevy »

splike wrote: post #16

On the subject of YouTube related chrome extensions, I created one called WikiTube a couple of years ago. Its super simple, and just adds relevant YouTube videos to the top of Wikipedia pages. I'm quite happy with it https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikitube/aneddidib...

Just came to say thanks, WikiTube is awesome.

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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Post by foobarbecue »

I've been wanting to make one that displays times mentioned in comments on the time bar.

Ideally the interface could be expanded to add annotations to videos and even graph funniness over time.

Has anyone seen something like this out there yet?

Re: Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and make your own playlists

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Post by kmiroslav »

mendelk wrote: post #91
kmiroslav wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll add: - Keyboard shortcuts to increase/decrease the speed (shortcuts for all controls, really)

There are shortcuts to change the speed! > to increase, and < to decrease.

Wow I was never able to find these, TIL.

Thanks!

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