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Youtube

Youtube is a hellhole.

Channels

Music

They don't usually last forever, but Youtube has some real treasure troves.

Privacy

Tips to make Youtube less shit:

  • Don't use an account. If you want to follow channels you can us RSS. Google obscures the feed URL, but I use youtube-rss-finder to put a little button in the Address bar.
    • Some people use this kinda thing to set it up so their computer downloads videos they want to watch, so they can watch them offline.
  • Use a container in Firefox, and don't store cookies.
  • Automatically wipe all the other stuff it stores on your computer with cookie-autodelete, this way you'll avoid it's recommendations.
  • Use a browser plugin like blocktube so you can block whichever channels you choose from being shown to you.
  • Try clients like Invidious and NewPipe.

Sharing

To make a video URL start at a particular time you can define it in minutes and seconds by adding &t=XmYs to the end, where X is the minute and Y is the number of seconds, for example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRTSSzccALA&t=1m0s

Tools

  • Yt-dlp - Great tool for Grabbing YT vids is various formats, or just grabbing the audio.

Clients

Youtube's got comepletely unusable for me now. Dunno what combination of Firefox and ad-blocker settings it is, so I've started using Freetube for watching videos. It works with redirect add-ons so that videos always open in the program, and you can block channels. On Android I've been using Pipepipe, switched to it after Newpipe stopped working and was taking to long to release the fixed version.

Other ones I've seen, some I've tried:

youtube.txt · Last modified: 2024/12/30 17:26 by rjt