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Youtube
Youtube is a hellhole.
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.
- Use a container in Firefox, and don't store cookies.
- Regularly wipe all the other stuff it stores on your computer with cookie-autodelete, this way you'll avoid it's recommendations.
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
- Youtube-dl - Great tool for Grabbing YT vids is various formats, or just grabbing the audio.
youtube.1613335806.txt.gz · Last modified: 2021/02/15 07:50 by rjt