How I spend less time on YouTube • Hacker News Board

Re: How I spend less time on YouTube

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 09, 2021, 1:32 PM UTC

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Re: How I spend less time on YouTube

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Post by bellyfullofbac » Thu, Dec 09, 2021, 1:36 PM UTC

You can do the same with StackOverflow's "Hot Network" questions, and "New from our blog"... How is that not a dark pattern, I'm trying to find how to do blah in Java, and a question about world building would pique my interest...

Re: How I spend less time on YouTube

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Post by lardolan » Thu, Dec 09, 2021, 1:36 PM UTC

Thank you for sharing. I use extensions blockers to block feed on linkedin and facebook. Will try for youtube too!

Re: How I spend less time on YouTube

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Post by diplodocusaur » Thu, Dec 09, 2021, 1:37 PM UTC

You can also play faster than the 2x speed limit cap using

document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].playbackRate=4

is there a way to also make this the default max play speed without entering it in console?

Re: How I spend less time on YouTube

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Post by madsohm » Thu, Dec 09, 2021, 1:41 PM UTC

diplodocusaur wrote: post #14

You can also play faster than the 2x speed limit cap using document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].playbackRate=4 is there a way to also make this the default max play speed without entering it in console?

I find that the audio gets out of sync when playing faster than 2x. Have you also noticed that - and perhaps have a solution?

Re: How I spend less time on YouTube

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Post by throw8932894 » Thu, Dec 09, 2021, 1:41 PM UTC

On Android there is Kiwi browser with desktop uBlock extension can do this blocking.

Re: How I spend less time on YouTube

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Post by ballenf » Thu, Dec 09, 2021, 1:42 PM UTC

What I really want is all my subscriptions to get auto-downloaded into Plex. And for Plex to have better library management tools from the player, so I can delete after watching or move to a category.

Then show me all the algorithmic stuff when I'm on the website so I can find better stuff to subscribe to.

Re: How I spend less time on YouTube

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Post by blueflow » Thu, Dec 09, 2021, 1:42 PM UTC

The official UI has some weird bugs. Like, when i listen to a long video, and then seek back to some position near the beginning, it gets stuck loading forever.

At this point, running youtube-dl via mpv on it is faster than the official UI for me. I set ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=480]+bestaudio/best[height<=480] in the mpv config so i dont use up more bandwith than my eyes can consume. Youtube-dl is somewhat wonky some days, tho.

Re: How I spend less time on YouTube

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Post by pjc50 » Thu, Dec 09, 2021, 1:47 PM UTC

Android users may enjoy NewPipe: just lets you watch the video, no ads, no suggestions.

Re: How I spend less time on YouTube

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Post by loloquwowndueo » Thu, Dec 09, 2021, 1:48 PM UTC

The best way I’ve found to spend less time on YouTube is realizing that the vast majority of content is pure garbage and just stay the hell away from it. These days I only visit it when I need something specific (a tutorial on how to do a particular thing, a video the kid wants to watch, etc). And of course uBlock origin is enabled to spare me from the “unskippable ads that are longer than the video itself” experience.