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Comment by buro9

1 year ago

I found it freezes every 60 seconds, and I just click the "Share" button and "Starting at", and copied the time into the URL and reload the page... then it works.

After a few times I got into the habit of "increment seconds by 60, reload page".

I don't know why it has to be so hard, I seldom to never go to YouTube now because of how badly it works.

Feels super anti-competitive to own YouTube and Chrome, and to punish Firefox users so aggressively.

Might as well just download videos and watch them later.

  • The one thing you lose I guess is discovery, but the algorithm is so volatile that maybe that's not the worst thing in the world.

    • Yeah, i've used tampermonkey and various other scripts to remove all discovery/suggestions from youtube, and I've never regretted it. It's great. But that's just my personal style, if you sit down and watch it like TV then I can see how that would be a sacrifice.

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  • This is actually what I do most of the time. I feel like that anecdote of RMS where he says he wgets web pages and e-mails them to himself.