laughs in NewPipe
Laughs in Grayjay
Last I heard grayjay made the choice not to include sponsorblock
sponsorblock is included alongside a comment that you should support creators
For people on „ios“ Unwatched app is good
Laughs in Firefox, which allows plug-ins in mobile. I can have all my ad blockers and video speed controllers, and anything else.
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Lol nope, out of principle I will never pay for this even if I didn’t already hate Google.
It feels so condescending to the user, so unconcerned with their agency that I could never bring myself to support this choice with even a tiny amount of money.
100% agree. The problem is that there are more and more features that get tugged behind the subscription paywall
Same here. I’m sick of seeing people say stuff like “just pay for Premium bro”. Stfu. That’s like paying the mafia for “protection” from them. YouTube created these problems and now I have to pay them to fix it? Fuck no.
Download it and play it however you want in VLC.
It was never a free feature; they used to only allow up to 2X speed. Not that that justifies it at all of course.
You can use
yt-dlpto download it and play it in whatever movie player you want that supports variable speeds, unless and until YouTube cracks down on downloading.I use jdownloader2. I think it uses yt-dl on the backend though? Like the original yt-dl. I’m not sure.
I was curious so I downloaded the Mac version of yt-dlp (as I am on Mac), couldn’t get it to run. And I’m comfortable with the command line.
YouTube kinda is cracking down on downloading though. If a video is marked as adult (you need to sign in to view it), it can’t be downloaded. A lot of “official videos” (like trailers from the studio) can’t be downloaded. Subtitles can’t be downloaded. That’s in jd2. Not sure about yt-dlp.
I think it uses yt-dl on the backend though? Like the original yt-dl.
You’re probably thinking of
youtube-dl. I’d guess that it most-likely used that at one point, but probably switched toyt-dlpwhen YouTube started throttling single-stream downloads.Yt-dlp all those work, though you may need log in (cookie) for ‘adult’ content
But i dl with subtitles every time ‘–write-auto-subs’ or ‘–write-subs en’ or ‘all’, also got ‘–convert-subs srt’ yt-dlp the goat
Nice, but that doesn’t work on my machine as of yet.
It’s weird that the default archive utility we (Mac users) all use (The Unarchiver) can’t do .7z files, but if they’re downloaded through jdownloader2, they unzip just fine. The actual 7-Zip application is only available as a command line interface on Mac, whereas on Windows, as you probably know, it’s more like a file manager.
One of these days I’ll get yt-dlp working on my Mac. Even being in the same folder as it, typing yt-dlp in the terminal doesn’t open it. That’s how it worked in DOS/Windows (or you had it in a folder you declared in PATH= in Autoexec.bat, back in the day), but Mac/UNIX terminal is something I have very little experience in. Comfortable with it, but inexperienced. So I suppose I have some reading to do. Especially if the subs work as well as you say.
Aye yeah that’s fair, in that case i’d recommend PeaZip, it’s what I use on my CachyOS setup since 7zip is just cli on Unix. PeaZip has a nice file manager UI.
In terms of yt-dlp it really depends how you installed it…
Assuming you’re in the folder where yt-dlp is:
1. Make it executable
chmod +x yt-dlp
2. Run it directly from the current folder
./yt-dlp --version
If that works, then the binary is fine and it’s just a PATH thing.
I’d recommend just installing it through Homebrew personally, it will sort out the PATH for you automatically.
install Homebrew if you don’t have it (from brew.sh)
then:
brew install yt-dlp
yt-dlp --version
Otherwise if you want to make the binary work (if you already have the file or want to download it manually)
Open the folder in terminal and then
move it somewhere on PATH
sudo mv yt-dlp /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
make sure it’s executable
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
Now whichever way you choose, you should be able to just do:
yt-dlp https://example.com/video --write-auto-subs
Along with whatever other commands you want to use!
Thanks! Should have known I could install it with brew. I installed that pretty early on. It’s now updating a bunch of stuff because I really don’t use it that much.
I think some of your commands are Linux-specific but I’m going with the homebrew installation.
Just gonna leave this here (for desktop at least): https://github.com/codebicycle/videospeed
Why and what type of videos are you watching at 2x speed?
Idk what to tell you, a lot of youtubers talk pretty fuckin slow
I watch basically everything that isn’t music or advanced mathematics at 2x speed. YouTubers talk so slowly.
That’s what I wanted to know. Until I realised I don’t care how people watch YouTube and that it’s more annoying to me that Google is paywalling something that costs them nothing to implement.
I watch most IT/Technical videos at 1.5-2x speed. Especially tutorial style videos. Most creators use a very long and drawn out way of speaking in order to keep the viewer on the same page, but most of the time I know the core concepts already, so I don’t need the super detailed parts only the barebones.
This was a video of a machine treating pomegranate seeds 🤷 don’t ask
But it was filmed in a lot of detail and there was no need to watch the whole thing. The creators should probably have made a highlights video instead.
It’s for people who want to skim but not to read.
I would give anything to skim an article rather than sit through a 10 minute video for the one thing I need to know.
Use the transcript and skip/read through
It’s on every youtube video at the bottom of the description!
I don’t know what YouTube does when you increase playback speed, but a lot of people who listen to podcast-type material or lectures will use software that has the ability to time-stretch the playback without changing the pitch. That is, we can often understand people perfectly well speaking more quickly than they actually do.
I imagine that some people are most-likely looking at content of that sort on YouTube.
Use Revanced if you’re on android
This is only the beginning…
The beginning‽ They’ve been up to shit like this for years!
revanced and smarttube
Enshitification Nation.
Not if you know JavaScript…
So infuriating… Sadly, I can’t even boycott YouTube because of how much good content it has
Note: Btw, don’t think that I’m one of those normies who use YouTube on its official app with my account logged in and definitely don’t think I’m a normie that doesn’t use an ad-blocker
…what? Go do something else instead of watching YouTube-style content then. Read a book. Take up knitting. Do crosswords.
You can live a full life without Internet videos.
That’s so stupid it feels like satire. But I guess it’s not too surprising.
I have my own speed control that I can adjust or enter max speed for.
Wait until they find some stupid way to lock down Chrome extensions. I just know they will.
This extension is for Firefox. Get off the chrome platform in all the places you can
Exactly. We better stop using Chrome. I mean, we should stop using Google products altogether. But for YouTube, it’s impossible to find an alternative that has the same content.
