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YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 days ago by Oka@sopuli.xyz to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
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Why YSK: Youtube's enshittification creates an abysmal experience. There's a list of Chrome extensions I've collected over the years that each fix an aspect of Youtube to bring back a genuine experience. I've seen in comments people mention one or two of these at a time, so this is a pack that contains everything you could need, and more.

Sample:

Essential Plugins:

  • Ghostery: Blocks trackers and ads
  • uBlock Origin: Blocks In-video ads
  • SponsorBlock: Skips in-video sponsor segments
  • Return Youtube Dislike: Returns the dislike button
  • DeArrow: Better titles and thumbnails, removes clickbait
  • Youtube Redux: Returns youtube to the older style
  • Style Bot: This tool allows you to edit CSS. With a bit of setup, you can use it to block sponsored videos from appearing in our video suggestions:
  1. Open Stylebot options
  2. Styles > New Style

URL: Youtube.com

CSS (copy and paste):

ytd-ad-slot-renderer,
ytd-rich-item-renderer:has(
  > #content
    > ytd-ad-slot-renderer
){
  display: none;
}
  1. Save Style and Refresh Youtube

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[–] trotfox@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

How well does sponsor block work?

I wrote a small script that filtered it by grabbing the transcription, uploading it to chatgpt through api, analyzing and sending back timestamps of suspected ads.

These were overlayed on the video scroll bar in yellow blocks. As the video played it skipped these blocks altogether.

It was fun to build and worked well. Now I'm on Firefox and would like something similar....

[–] emb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Reminds me of this: https://butter.sonnet.io/

Which also doesn't have a Firefox version, but I was always kinda curious about.

Actually, is that your project? Lol, you mentioned yellow blocks which made me think of butter.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It works really good.

Any channel with constant 10k views typically get a submission within a day, channels with 1mil views typically get submissions within the hour.

Its not hard to submit times your self, its all built in to the player bar.

There are multiple categories that you can choose what get automatically skipped or not.

Some categories are; sponser, self-promotion, into/recap, credits, filler/tangents, non-music (for music videos) and highlight, which is a marker showing where the "point" of the video is.

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sponsor block just uses crowd sourced submissions people vote on. No reason an ai bot couldn't submit entries too, if they're good they'll get upvoted

[–] couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

I run isponsorblocktv in docker to mute/skip ads and sponsor segments on my smart TV and it works beautifully.