New youtube layout?

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• helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Extension suggestion: Enhancer for YouTube

  addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/enhancer-for-youtube/

  To keep it self working it prevents “expiramental layouts” from youtube.

  Great for setting YouTube player defaults the way you want.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is auful. There’s uBlock rules to disable it.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Commenting here so I can come back to this when I get home, as Lemmy doesn’t have a save option.

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    • Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lemmy absolutely does have a save option

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    • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You don’t see a star or bookmark symbol on comments?

      Might be app you are using?

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• recklessengagement@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve been getting very close to ditching YouTube. This change showed up a few weeks ago for me and pushed me a bit further.

  If they succeed in inserting ads into the video stream I’ll bail alltogether. I can fit a subscription to Brilliant, Dropout, and several creator Patreons into the cost of a YouTube Red subscription, and I won’t have to deal with these attention-optimizing UI changes.

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  • Orfeluh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can use some of the alternatives like Piped in web browser or desktop app called FreeTube

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  • fionnafire@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can get YouTube premium for like three bucks if you VPN into certain countries. Ukraine worked for me.

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    • Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, let’s abuse a country’s poor economy so the service providers eventually raise the price in the region as a direct countermeasure and fuck over the real citizens that needed that cheaper regional pricing.

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• tb_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not a fan. I prefer watching in theatre mode; when opening comments it closes theatre mode.

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• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve had this layout for a few weeks now, I agree it’s absolutely garbage. The amount of times that I’ve accidentally modified my Queue or cleared my queue attempting to read the comment section is ridiculous. As is the Queue feature is absolutely atrocious and buggy as hell but like don’t make it worse please

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  • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So, if it’s so much worse than the old/current layout, they’re almost guaranteed to adopt it fully

    googie can’t help but fuck up good things

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• downpunxx@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  they've been beta testing this for weeks, had it come up out of nowhere and stay like this for all video's for an entire evening, then next morning the comments and related video sidebar were back where they've always been

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I had it for a week…Which I call the week I stopped watching.

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• dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t see the black square bottom right? There is one bottom left.

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• jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They are always testing changes to different groups of people.

  Not too sure how that works, but if you wnat the old layout you can add extensions.

  Quick search results in:

  How to Undo YouTube’s Terrible New Layout [Jake Peterson | May 23 2024 | LifeHacker] lifehacker.com/…/how-to-undo-youtubes-terrible-ne…

  How to Get Old YouTube Layout Back: Simple Steps for Nostalgic Navigation [July 18, 2024 | bytebitebit] bytebitebit.com/…/how-to-get-old-youtube-layout-b…

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  • Schal330@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s likely A/B Testing and when people receive the new layout, if Youtube sees a drop in engagement for their experiment they may just ditch it.

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    • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh, thanks for the link!

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• mihnt@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does anyone know of a way to sync channel and have it auto-download to my server for watching how I want to?

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  • praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    github.com/meeb/tubesync

    Be careful running this. This can be very resource/disk space intensive.

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    • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Very nice 👌🏻 I’ll keep that in mind so that I have a solution after youtube stops me abusing poor country’s economy. (They did not yet)

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    • raldone01@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      At least on linux rm is very fast

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  • olicvb@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    aughta have a better way somewhere, but until you find it you could set a batch file to run youtube-dlp twice a day.

    I found this comment on reddit with an example of how you can have it check to make sure you don’t download the ones you already did.

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  • raldone01@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I use tubearchivist. It has a jellyfin addon but it could really use some improvements on how it exposes the videos.

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• geography082@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My layout didn’t change… maybe because I use my piped :D

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• JustARaccoon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not sure what the issue is with it really, is it just that it’s different? Maybe I’m in a niche group that reads comments while watching the video but it seems to me like a good improvement, and you can still go full screen if that’s an issue. Idk tho I don’t have access to this layout yet, just my impression based on the screenshots I’ve seen

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• clark@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Idk why I find im a albatroz so funny

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• 001Guy001@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some ways to try to revert it (some have already been mentioned)

  👉 Go to this page and check if you’re able to opt out of the “Redesigned Watch Page” (source)

  👉 Install a userscript addon like Violentmonkey, and then use a script like Classic Youtube Layout (which is based on this script which was outdated in regards to the related videos sidebar)

  • If you get an error about the @match line of the script then click on allow edits and change it from *.youtube.com/* to *://*.youtube.com/*, or install the script as it is and then put *://*.youtube.com/* in the “@match rules” line in the settings tab of the script
  • There’s also this script that you would need to add its code manually to the userscript addon by clicking on the new script icon (see the author’s post for more details)

  👉 Use uBlock Origin filters like these or these

  • Note that youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.kevlar_watch_grid, false) should be enough to change the UI back for the most part

  👉 Use this userscript and Stylus style

  👉 The addon Enhancer for YouTube (Firefox / Chrome) also reverts the UI, at least partially

  👉 (might only work some times) Use the addon CustomTube - Firefox / Chrome (the default UI is from 2017 but you can choose 2021 in the settings. It’s not exactly like the one from 2023 but it’s close enough)

  • note that it removes some buttons like Join by default so go over the settings if relevant

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  If you also want to change the number of videos per row in the subscription page and channels’ videos page, then you can add this uBlock Origin code to the “My filters” tab (at the end click “Apply changes”, or Ctrl+S) (this is for 6 items per row but you can change the number in the first 2 line as needed) (source 1 / source 2)

  youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-renderer:style(--ytd-rich-grid-items-per-row: 6 !important;)
  youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-renderer:style(--ytd-rich-grid-posts-per-row: 6 !important;)
  youtube.com##ytd-two-column-browse-results-renderer.grid-6-columns:style(width: 100% !important;)
  youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-row, #contents.ytd-rich-grid-row:style(display:contents !important;)
  youtube.com##ytd-two-column-browse-results-renderer.grid:not(.grid-disabled):style(max-width: 100% !important;)
  

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