• @fosforus@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months ago

    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
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      188 months ago

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

        • Johanno
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          58 months ago

          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
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            28 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
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      8 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
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      68 months ago

      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.

      • netburnr
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        68 months ago

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

        • @hackris@lemmy.ml
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          58 months ago

          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
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            8 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
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          8 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
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      18 months ago

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