How I spend less time on YouTube
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How I spend less time on YouTube
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Re: How I spend less time on YouTube
#2Just implemented this! Thanks for posting! For those who don't click, he suggests some uBlock Origin filters to remove the suggestion lists from YouTube. For example, currently I'm watching a video and all I see is THE VIDEO - no list of suggestions off to the side.
I guess we can say YouTube's suggestions are "too good"! I might just apply this to my work computer. I'll probably keep them around for my casual viewing on personal machines since I find some new stuff with them.
It'll be interesting to see how this changes my browsing!
Re: How I spend less time on YouTube
#3Just implemented this! Thanks for posting! For those who don't click, he suggests some uBlock Origin filters to remove the suggestion lists from YouTube. For example, currently I'm watching a video and all I see is THE VIDEO - no list of suggestions off to the side. I guess we can say YouTube's suggestions are "too good"! I might just apply this to my work computer. I'll probably keep them around for my casual viewin…
Glad to hear you find it useful!
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#4Personally I can really recommend the „Unhook YouTube“ extension. It’s really customizable and allows you to remove autoplay, recommendations and even the homepage. It’s really easy to configure and really did help me reducing my time spend on YouTube without breaking the entire website.
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#5I do the same thing for linkedin. Pick and select the "timeline" post page or whatever it is called and block it. Completely eliminates the social media bloat so I can focus on the only reason I still keep a profile on there. Now mostly for just chatting anyhow.
Re: How I spend less time on YouTube
#6Personally I can really recommend the „Unhook YouTube“ extension. It’s really customizable and allows you to remove autoplay, recommendations and even the homepage. It’s really easy to configure and really did help me reducing my time spend on YouTube without breaking the entire website.
I can vouch for DF Tube (Distraction Free for YouTube™).
Re: How I spend less time on YouTube
#7I recently found a distraction-free youtube client which works very well:
Problem is sometimes if you click on a generic youtube link, it won't automatically open up the link in the distraction-free client.
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#8I was expecting a /etc/hosts entry :D
Re: How I spend less time on YouTube
#9I recently found a distraction-free youtube client which works very well: http://yt.dudzik.co/ Problem is sometimes if you click on a generic youtube link, it won't automatically open up the link in the distraction-free client.
I personally find IdiotBox[1] to be better than this as it opens links in ad free youtube embeds and also links channel and other information alongside the video itself.
P.S. you can replace the “watch?=“ part of a youtube url with “/embed/“ and get a distraction free view of the video.
Or you could just open it in mpv or something.
Re: How I spend less time on YouTube
#10Just implemented this! Thanks for posting! For those who don't click, he suggests some uBlock Origin filters to remove the suggestion lists from YouTube. For example, currently I'm watching a video and all I see is THE VIDEO - no list of suggestions off to the side. I guess we can say YouTube's suggestions are "too good"! I might just apply this to my work computer. I'll probably keep them around for my casual viewin…
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