I started using ytp-dl and mpv after receiving those adblock warnings. My life is now 420% better because I stopped reading Youtube comments as a side-effect. Also, mpv is 5 billion times better player than any web browser media player can ever be.

[–] shortly2139@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You sound like Senku from Dr. Stone. I've been trying to find an extension that opens videos in any player not just mpv

[–] graham1@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

10 billion percent better

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Why do you consider not reading comments an improvement? Just asking because I'm curious.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The comments are the best part

[–] PulpDood@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Not these comments! /s

[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I prefer to knowingly commit mental suicide, like by coming here.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The vast majority of YouTube comments are incredibly dumb. I hope the reason is that it's mostly kids.

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It heavily depends on the content. While on dumb Videos there are dumb comments and on Minecraft Videos there are childish ones on the high quality of entertainment I watch only perfectly balanced comments are shown.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It's true that they're less "facepalm-inducing" under the smarter videos, but any entertainment video with wide enough appeal is gonna be littered with comments that will make you feel like you're having a stroke while reading them. It usually gets worse if the channel is more family friendly, I assume because the YouTube algorithm serves it to kids a lot more.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The only thing worse than youtube video comments are youtube short comments. Not even reddit can match that level of unrepentant nazism.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i installed karamel and now my comments are from reddit posts that discuss the video i'm watching. i find that to be really helpful.

[–] afunkysongaday@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What's that?

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

an extension.

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Looks like it's only available on Chrome based browsers, oh well.

[–] spiderman@ani.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

or you could use a piped instance.

[–] netburnr@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If their self install instructions were worth a shit I might agree with you.

[–] hackris@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This. I tried to self-host Piped and it was a PITA. I am experienced in self-hosting but setting it up behind a reverse proxy was next to impossible and basically no guides exist.

[–] netburnr@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I did vidious, very easy. Sadly max 720p if you proxy from YouTube and if you proxy from your instance 1080p buffers like mad even on a bidirectional 1gig internet on a gaming PC style server. So back to unlock for me since a lot of my videos watched are 4k

[–] spiderman@ani.social 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't host an instance, so I don't know how hard it is. You can choose any popular instance like kavin.rocks if hosting doesn't seem like a viable option.

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I want my life to be 69% better. Did you follow a good guide? Do you recall which guide it was?

[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz -1 points 10 months ago

The best guide there is. My brain.