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Thankfully there are better frontends for many social media sites. For YouTube, you can use Piped and Invidious. LibRedirect is a browser addon that automatically redirects all YouTube links to your selected frontend. If you want a native desktop app, check out FreeTube. On Android you can use LibreTube, NewPipe or a fork of it called Tubular. On iOS, you can configure Yattee to work with Piped and Invidious, this guide explains it: https://gonzoknows.com/posts/yattee/.

Is dearrow actually good? Does it work for small streamers?

I wish I installed sponsorblock sooner.

I recently discovered there are extensions to disable YouTube hotkeys. I personally disabled numbers 0-9, so annoying and useless.

EDIT: the extension I use is Disable YouTube Seek by Number

I didn't even check if it is open source. So if it's secretly a Bitcoin miner don't blame me.

The amount of userscripts I have for YouTube is getting ridiculous...

They're moving comments?? Why??

Invidious

When Christian Selig announced his independent Apple Vision YouTube App, I thought twice about actually getting one, just so I would’t have to use YouTubes ridiculous Application and Web UIs.

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Then I decided that it would be silly to spend any money on a 1st Gen Apple Vision.

Come to think about it, it's been ages since I've seen or at least noticed a red arrow thumbnail. Is that just me or are they in decline?

for the longest time the annotations switch in the settings menu existed, up until like 2018 i wanna say? They removed annotations in 2016 iirc, may have been 2018, and i'm fuzzing the years, it's been a hot while give me some slack.

Still sad about annotations.

You can replace some of them with a userstyle extension (not Stylish, that tracks you) and applying a style someone else already made.

I don't care about video comments anymore; in my experience it was filled with attention-seeking content and incels trying to look cool. It's also full of bots in the reply sections.

Instead, I use mpv media player to watch YouTube. I pick a video off my recommendations or the subscription page then I copy the video link and then I just have to do mpv <video link> in my terminal. It's also much faster on my low-end PC.

It doesn't have sponser-block support, but it does have ad-blocker. I haven't really checked sponser-block support yet either.

Edit: found this for sponser-block support.

You should also try YT Redux

This is me with the last few “redesigns” of chrome. Stop adding dead space to my fuckin bookmarks!

FreeTube? Or are you watching on your phone?

I also have pockettube for categorising my subscriptions

invidious is a good option

Is privacy badger still considered good for blocking embedded Twitter stuff?