Show HN: Less Addictive YouTube – a cross-browser plugin • Hacker News Board

Personally I use uBlock Origin plugin to hide elements I don't want to see on any website, and that made Facebook less "enjoyable" with no like buttons and reaction counts, no news feed, and no account photos and names (I took it a bit far I know). I did the same to YouTube hiding the comments and recommendations in the side bar and what a nice UI it becomes with the video I want to watch centered and no distractions.

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Post by surajs » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 10:14 AM UTC

i bow before thee my lord!

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Post by Ghexor » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 10:17 AM UTC

I'm a big fan of reducing the webs addictive footprint. So thank you for building this, I hope it gains traction :)

I've found ublock origin's "picking"-feature quite powerful. It allows you to just pick and permanently remove any element on a page. My youtube pretty much looks just like what this addon does. I think with a simpler UI it could empower many more people to handle their online addictions. This seems especially important on mobile and sadly also particularly difficult.

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Post by TheFreim » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 10:20 AM UTC

I watch a lot of technology overviews/previews explanation videos and in many cases people will point out issues in the comments. I wonder if there would be a good solution to be able to see that kind of comment but not useless ones.

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Post by kristiandupont » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 10:52 AM UTC

Excellent! I installed a similar plugin for facebook that disables the news feed and it worked wonders. I can still access my messages and invitations which is what keeps me locked in, but facebook itself is now a boring site that I never use for procrastination.

I wish I had a solution for this here site. I've tried noprocrast several times but it doesn't really work for me, I always end up disabling it.

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Post by jessedrain » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 10:59 AM UTC

arlk wrote: post #4

Nice work. Personally I use uBlock Origin plugin to hide elements I don't want to see on any website, and that made Facebook less "enjoyable" with no like buttons and reaction counts, no news feed, and no account photos and names (I took it a bit far I know). I did the same to YouTube hiding the comments and recommendations in the side bar and what a nice UI it becomes with the video I want to watch centered and no d…

I also use uBlock Origin in the same way. But my friend, who's a great developer, didn't know you could use uBlock Origin to hide elements, so I created a plugin that streamlines that process for her most addictive website.