Does a Firefox equivalent to TubeSift Bookmarker exist?
I did a brief search of Firefox extensions, but couldn't find anything. Most of the ad-related YouTube extensions seemed devoted to blocking ads, rather than archiving and cataloguing them.
My current workflow is as follows:
- Right-click on the video player, select "Copy debug info"
- Alt+Tab to a text editor
- Ctrl+V the debug info into text editor
- Ctrl+F for "addocid"
- Ctrl+C the advertisment video id
- Alt+Tab back to browser
- Ctrl+N to open new browser window
- Type "
youtu.be/"
- Ctrl+V the video id
- Wait a fraction of a second for the URL to redirect from
youtu.be/[video_id] to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[video_id]&feature=youtu.be to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[video_id]
- Ctrl+D to bookmark the video
- Ctrl+W to close the browser window
I can usually do this in under 15 seconds, but I would like to find a faster (or completely automatic) method. Does anyone have any recommendations?
Update: I partially automated my workflow using AutoHotKey.
But why?
I often see interesting or funny ads that I want to rewatch or reference later. Most ads are unlisted videos, which makes them nigh impossible to look up.
Ah, interesting.
I don’t get it either. But old ads from the 80s and 90s are quite interesting. It’s sort of a snapshot of society in some ways.
I suspect that in the 2050s, ads from the 2010s and 2020s will seem similar.