DeArrow extension for YouTube that makes thumbnails bearable
DeArrow extension for YouTube that makes thumbnails bearable
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I've used it for exactly three minutes and this is already amazing. I hope it gets integrated into ReVanced and Newpipe.
I would love it on Piped, they already have sponsorblock
Never heard of piped. Filling the same niche as revanced?
Kind of. It's a desktop web front-end to Youtube. I'm not sure whether it blocks in-stream ads (and I'm not turning off Ublock to find out), but it does basically reimplement the Youtube interface without many of its undesired elements.
Two things. First is that your link doesn't work. It's bringing it to a lemmy link and then it crashes because it 'could not find post'. Remove the lemmy stuff in the front.
Second is that I fail to see how this website is even remotely better. While YouTube has overdone itself on some features, I don't understand how removing every feature that has ever existed is any better. The website looks like utter garbage. The fact that it's not broken up by anything, the fact it has such a simple one color background, and the like 10 pixels border of each video this whole thing just becomes a clusterfuck that's difficult to look at. My eyes immediately start to glaze over and defocus because what the hell am I supposed to focus on?
Youtube has some serious issues, almost all of them gained since Google purchased the site, but this is actively worse. It's just Angelfire Youtube. A clunky chaotic mess that has no idea what it's trying to do. It claims that it's to be 'efficient' but it actively hurts to read the comments. They're all the same font and same color. The author is bold but that just adds to the sea of white nonsense.
Sure. They may have stripped away everything from youtube to make it 'efficient' but they also managed to strip away any basic visual design that lets users process information more easily. I'm not talking extra features. I'm talking simple shit like choosing how much space is available for this specific block, what font to use, what color should that font be, the spacing between videos or blocks, etc.
If you feel so strongly about the matter, feel free to not use it. Or better yet, contribute to the project to bring it up to feature parity.
As for the link - I guess whatever parses the URLs on Lemmy doesn't recognise
.videoas a valid top-level domain. All I wrote waspiped.video, everything else was added by the website.Typical. When presented with valid criticism of a garbage app that's being spammed on every community through a bot you retreat into your shell and say "Well don't use it then". Ever think that criticism is something to listen to instead of outright ignoring it? Also why the hell would I contribute to a project I outright do not respect for their marketing methods?
Good luck dude. You're going to need it if you're shrieking like a republican the second someone says something you don't like.
You just threw six paragraphs of vitriol at me, but I'm the one who's screeching? Okay.
I mean, you're not necessarily wrong,, but for some people that is kind of just the appeal. It's very obviously targetted at a very niche group of people, and if you're not in that, of course you'll dislike it
That's the thing. I AM in that group of people. YouTube is front loaded with a ton of garbage but that site isn't the correct answer. I get stripping YouTube features. That's fine. But I'd expect them to leave stuff that isn't even a feature but simple web design in 2023. Fuck even simple web design in 2005. No website looked that terrible. Everyone, for years, has understood that you need to tweak things slightly so people can process information easily. Slapping everything with the same font, same formatting and then squishing it so close together is idiotic. Even at it's height, YouTube never looked like so utterly stupid.
More like Newpipe but it actually works (GURU MEDIATION) and has nice UI. I just found it yesterday on FDroid, I recommend it.
Thanks, I didn't know revanced was a thing. I only enjoyed old vanced for briefly in its last days. So good to hear theres still options like this around.
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Honestly ReVanced is quite a bit more extensible than Vanced and works very reliably. Plus it's open source and you can download it off GitHub. The manager makes downloading patches about as easy as installing Vanced with the manager a few years ago. I'm sure someone will add a derrow patch to Revanced very soon
I've used vanced and revanced since day one and always checked the stickied reddit post for any update notes before upgrading to the latest patch set. Revanced decided to migrate to Discord which is possibly the dumbest place they could have gone to (read: I don't know how to use it to quickly find relevant patch notes and am angry about it), and I feel like updating to a new version is a crapshoot.
Do you know of a better place to find out which versions are compatible with the latest APK and where to get support if something breaks?
The Manager does a reasonable job identifying patches available for a given version. The Issues page on GitHub has a lot of the bugs laid out. The Releases tab also has the update notes and the website has the patch notes (including required version).
On the Discord, #announcements has the major update info. #support acts quite a lot like the old Reddit page where people post issues they've run into with threaded replies. I agree having a ReVanced Lemmy page would be better than Discord but Discord Posts are shockingly usable imo. Chat and Off-Topic are obviously horrifically unsearchable chatrooms but also aren't the only resources on the server.
Much appreciated!