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Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

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Post by computerfriend »

mrandish wrote: post #164
inhumantsar wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Nova YouTube looked this up out of curiosity. the only thing resembling a description is "Combine small plugins, expanding the possibilities of YouTube." which is pretty useless. what all does this do?

Here is what the Nova YT interface looks like on my Firefox. Each section is a separate module. Modules don't do anything if not activated so you can choose how you want YT to behave/appear. https://i.imgur.com/lMKaJ5t.jpeg After putting the number of videos in a grid row back to a useful number, things I especially like are changing video thumbnails back to a still that's actually from the fucking video, instead of…

I like the clickbait thumbnails and capitalised titles, it is a useful signal for what videos to avoid.

Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

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Post by perihelion_zero »

markus_zhang wrote: post #45

On a side note, I have been reflecting on the impact of modern Internet contents on me for the last 12 years or so. The conclusion is, for whatever the reason, the impact is mostly negative. It would do me a great favor to simply remove Youtube, social media sites and anything similar from my life. I probably have ADHD. I rarely completed any side projects. I'm anxious most if the time, biting my fingers all the time…

I feel like I'm in a similar boat. Like 6 different mental disorders including constantly pulling my hair out.

I've contemplating sales calls. You can theoretically make like on the order of over $1000/hour while sitting on a bench or walking on a trail. It can be done in short bursts once you get the hang of it.

Then once you have some financial freedom in a few hours of successful work (not the first few hours), you can sell other people designs for clubhouses and build them all over the world and pay people to show up to club meetings (because sadly that is the only way).

Modern workplaces are a lot like clubhouses because everyone is friends there, but they suck because you have to be there all day. If you could just show up to any workplace for a few hours here and there whenever you wanted, the world would be a better place. Some days you could be a dishwasher, other days you could be a bulldozer operator or dig in the mines. I like to try new jobs.

That's my business idea, thanks.

Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

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Post by mozempthrowaway »

miah_ wrote: post #100
IncreasePosts wrote: post #96

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Also, it is Firefox on the desktop. 90% of YouTube views come from mobile, and Firefox only has about 5% market share on the desktop. So desktop Firefox is a half a percent of the overall users of youtube. Is it any surprise that maintaining support for a browser that delivers less than a percent of the total users is deprioritized or just forgotten about?

Despite those stats, if Google wants to avoid being called a monopoly they need to support it, and it needs to receive the same level of support as their own product.

It’s not monopolistic to not support shitty browsers with little user base. This isn’t even the basis for the current antitrust ruling against Google, for what it’s worth.

As the parent comment points out, if YouTube isn’t buggy for most of their users, why do they have to worry about it? We don’t expect either Microsoft or game devs to ensure their stuff works well with wine on Linux.

Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

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Post by PaulHoule »

kyriakos wrote: post #175
PaulHoule wrote: post #169

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Then they should fork it and start a new organization. The EU and the world could have a privacy focused browser if they paid for it. If they don't they're going to always be waiting for the market to do it and it won't. Given that Mozilla wastes a lot of resources on things that are thoroughly pizzled (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autofac ) a browser could be maintained for much less than the current Mozilla bu…

They can fork Chromium instead. Doesn't mean Firefox is the best base to start.

… and there are many Chromium forks out there. For web standards to really be standards and not “Chromium” there has to be a viable non-Chromium browser.

Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

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Post by lioeters »

Reubachi wrote: post #180
__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #60

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Do you get much value out of a youtube video the second time around? If I need to figure out which screws to remove or something like that, it's probably the first and last time I'll need that particular information. If you're not also ensuring that others can access that copy then I don't really see the point.

Of the top of my head I can think of 5-10 youtube videos that have had such a profound effect on me, or I enjoyed so much, that I want them forever. This isn't counting for example videos like "how to remove a 2012 mazda 3 wheel bearing" that I have watched 4x over the last 10 years. Like anyone else though... I won't put that into effect until it's too late, because I'm used to youtube "being there." Additionally, t…

Just curious, could you share any memorable video(s) that you saved locally to rewatch?

I occasionally save audio, like a song or album, so I can listen without the browser, but rarely video. Last time I did that, it was a Czech animation series from the 1960's called Krtek (The Little Mole). https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpaZrUayzSZmHWvtFR7n3...

Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

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Post by miah_ »

kyriakos wrote: post #175
PaulHoule wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then they should fork it and start a new organization. The EU and the world could have a privacy focused browser if they paid for it. If they don't they're going to always be waiting for the market to do it and it won't. Given that Mozilla wastes a lot of resources on things that are thoroughly pizzled (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autofac ) a browser could be maintained for much less than the current Mozilla bu…

They can fork Chromium instead. Doesn't mean Firefox is the best base to start.

The illusion of choice:

You can have any color car as long as its black. I mean you can run any browser you want, as long as its Chrome.

Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

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Post by miah_ »

VancouverMan wrote: post #91
miroljub wrote: post #16

Can confirm. Google is a new Microsoft, they leverage their position to cross promote their shit browser and their shit data stealing services. Sorry guys, if your data collection website doesn't work well with Firefox and uBlock Origin, I just won't use it.

Promoting Chrome may have gotten more people to install it and give it a try, but it didn't force those people to continue using Chrome. It didn't force them to keep using Chrome for years and years, in many cases. Most people, including a great many former Firefox users, simply chose to keep on using Chrome because it offered (and still offers) a superior web browsing experience compared to its competitors. This isn…

DEVO got America so right:

Freedom of choice

Is what you got

Freedom from choice

Is what you want

Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

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Post by miah_ »

escapecharacter wrote: post #75
amelius wrote: post #29

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Thank heavens there is https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

if only this existed for meetings

It does, its called Jitsi https://jitsi.org/

"Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure video conferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting."

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