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

Optional:

  • Frellwit@lemmy.world
    103·
    6 天前

    If you use uBO then Ghostery is redundant. It can also cause some of uBO’s filters to not work correctly.

    Also uBO can do what you did with stylebot. (If you use the full uBO extension, and not the limited Lite version for Chromium browsers):

    youtube.com##ytd-ad-slot-renderer
youtube.com##ytd-rich-item-renderer:has(ytd-ad-slot-renderer)
    • Oka@sopuli.xyzOP
      319·
      6 天前

      I don’t think uBO removes trackers. I originally wanted to do the filter with uBO ) I have a filter for promoted LinkedIn jobs) but found a reddit thread that used Style Bot with instructions

      • Froggie 🐸@lemmy.zip
        691·
        6 天前

        Not only is Ghostery redundant when you use uBlock Origin (you can choose the tracking removal lists, like EasyPrivacy, for example), Ghostery has a conflict of interests as it works with the ads industry at the same time it has this tool, and it reports the ads and tracking it finds back to advertisers, who can then make them bypass that detection better.

        If you insist in a separate add-on, Privacy Badger does the same blocking of trackers and it is maintained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit for digital privacy.

      • Frellwit@lemmy.world
        26·
        6 天前

        uBO do remove trackers with the EasyPrivacy and uBlock filters – Privacy filters. More filters and options can also be enabled if you know what you’re doing. For beginners it’s best to stick to the default settings as more additions can lead to more breakage.

  • Tigrafale@sh.itjust.worksFrançais
    5·
    6 天前

    One I use is called “Unhook”. You can use it to block different features e.g. Suggestions, video end screen suggestion, front page feed, shorts. It’s great if you spend too much time on YT and going on a cycle of watching suggested videos. Now, I only watch videos that appear in my subscriptions or those that I search for.

    I also use Better Subscriptions allowing me to hide watched or unwanted videos.

  • emb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    5 天前

    Thanks for the list! I use a handful of these (in Firefox), but wasn’t aware of all of them. Youtube Redux especially seems cool.

  • trotfox@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 天前

    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…

    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
      11·
      6 天前

      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.

    • emb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 天前

      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.

    • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee
      8·
      6 天前

      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

  • kepix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    6 天前

    im pretty sure ublock blocks trackers, and does it in a more open way.

    “enhancer for youtube” is also great, i like how it only allows one video playback at once. has some visual customisation options as well.

    the other is “youtube search fixer” , which disables the related and recommend crap from the search.

    • gurnu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 天前

      Clarification: you can set YT Enhancer to only allow one video to play, but you can enable multiple playback, too

      YouTube search fixer sounds like something I need, I hate that only the first ten or so search results are actually relevant

  • Zacryon@feddit.org
    221·
    5 天前

    There’s a list of Chrome extensions

    If you don’t want to have an enshittified internet, it would be reasonable to not use and thereby support software by a company which actively works on enshittifying virtually everything it touches.

    In other words: stop using Google / Alphabet products.

  • tordenflesk@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 天前

    Some relevant userscripts:

    https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/498145-youtube-hd-premium

    https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/457319-youtube-video-resize-fix

    https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/13040-youtube-hide-watched-videos

    https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/480312-compact-youtube-layout

    https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/528305-youtube-channel-auto-redirect-to-videos-section

    https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/447727-youtube-disable-inline-playback-keep-hovering-to-play

    https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/479883-youtube-shorts-to-traditional-video

    https://github.com/Zren/ResizeYoutubePlayerToWindowSize/

  • MrSilkworm@lemmy.ml
    71·
    6 天前

    uBlock origin, Sponsor block, dark reader and return YouTube dislike will do the trick.

    Use those on a privacy orientented browser like librewolf on desktop or fennec on android.

    Also setting a private DNS would be helpfull. Adguard is a good one.

    Lastly there is always the choice of Revanved if you’re a little tech savvy and use Android

  • Chip_Rat@lemmy.world
    31·
    6 天前

    Ok I think I read all the comments sufficiently and I still don’t see the feature I most want: sort by duration.

    Dinner is in 20 minutes. Click time range, set for 15-20 minutes. Look through suggestions from subscriptions that are 15-20min long. Pick one. Enjoy video knowing when it ends you’ll be able to go eat dinner/go to bed/leave for work.

    • invertedspear@lemm.ee
      21·
      5 天前

      Just don’t look?

      Annoying that they clog the search results I guess, but they are a great way for creators to drive engagement with their long form content. Sports has guided me to some really interesting content I wouldn’t have found otherwise.

  • vaguerant@fedia.io
    15·
    6 天前

    This one’s not strictly enshittification-related, but I find YouTube Comment Search (Firefox, Chrome) extremely useful. YouTube videos frequently have way more comments than any sensible person is going to read through. By searching for keywords, you can check whether somebody else already said what you were thinking and 👍 that instead of posting another duplicate comment that will get buried forever.