[HN Gopher] Show HN: Control Panel for YouTube
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Show HN: Control Panel for YouTube
Hi HN, I recently released a new browser extension for YouTube,
which in addition to the table stakes of hiding the existence of
Shorts, hiding promoted content, automatically skipping ads, hiding
useless/unused UI elements, hiding unwanted channels YouTube keeps
recommending to you, letting you hide algorithmic suggestions etc.
etc., makes other changes I've always wanted as a user, in the same
vein as one of my other extensions, Control Panel for Twitter. The
most significant of those is attempting to make your Subscriptions
page more like an Inbox, by hiding videos you've already watched
(with a configurable watch %), videos you're never going to watch
(like live streams and multi-hour stream VODs - if you follow any
gaming channels which started co-streaming to YouTube after a
recent Twitch policy change), videos you literally can't watch
(Upcoming), and improving the handling of videos hidden using
YouTube's built-in Hide functionality, then finally filling in the
gaps created by all those hidden videos, so unwatched content
you're interested in (since you didn't Hide it yet!) floats to the
top of your Subscriptions. Desktop and mobile versions of YouTube
are both supported, with some version-specific features, e.g. it
significantly improves the Subscriptions and Search page layout
when doing some comfy-mode browsing of the mobile version on an
iPad or other tablet in portrait mode (unfortunately the iOS
version is still stuck in App Review limbo, despite the macOS
version - which contains the exact same web extension code - being
approved on initial submission almost 2 weeks ago). Part of the
reason for finally making this (I've been meaning to improve the
Subscriptions page for ages) was YouTube starting to go after
uBlock Origin, which I can now disable on YouTube if it becomes
necessary, without seeing any promoted content or ads. Website:
https://jbscript.dev/control-panel-for-youtube Source:
https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-youtube
Author : insin
Score : 55 points
Date : 2024-03-07 11:47 UTC (11 hours ago)
| quaunaut wrote:
| Taking a look at it now, and how it interacts with Enhancer for
| Youtube.
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| The one thing I'm absolutely desperate for, is a fix to Youtube's
| Watch Later playlist issues.
|
| If you ever hit maximum on it, it seems permanently broken
| afterward to not delete watched videos- which means the only way
| to delete videos is manually, behind a 3-dot menu _per video_.
| Since the playlist max size is 5000, that 'd be a minimum 10,000
| clicks, and since the 3 dot menu only shows up once you're over a
| video, a certain level of hunting too.
|
| I tried to make an extension for this once, but bungled it pretty
| bad so it'll take another effort sometime. Youtube's my primary
| content source outside of games, so for me it hurts pretty bad.
| browningstreet wrote:
| I would love better playlist controls for Youtube. I do a lot
| of playlist shaping and even their web interface is broken --
| for instance, if you have a playlist with 100 items on it and
| you drag-n-drop to re-order, the visual order doesn't match the
| saved playlist order. I then re-load the playlist and have to
| scroll back down.
|
| I'd also like to shuffle certain playlists, not in playback,
| but the way it's stored.
| awslattery wrote:
| There is a "Removed watched videos" option in the three-dot-
| menu for the playlist itself on desktop at least. I have to do
| this every so often, and this is a very welcome feature as I
| used to do it as you describe.
| modeless wrote:
| My pet peeve is that if you start playing a video by clicking
| on it in the watch later playlist it will start wherever you
| left off, _but_ then if you let it proceed to the next video it
| will start at the beginning of that one, forever erasing your
| watch position for that video.
|
| In general the saving of watch position is very frustrating on
| YouTube. There are a lot of bugs. They need an explicit way to
| see exactly which parts you've watched.
|
| Has anyone made a "watch later" queue that is site-agnostic?
| I'd love to be able to add Twitter videos, Spotify podcasts,
| YouTube clips, etc to a single "watch later" queue.
| dotancohen wrote:
| Honest question: Do you ever actually watch them later? I've
| been bookmarking things on the internet to Read Later (TM)
| for 26 years. I might bookmark multiple things in a day. The
| Later never comes - and often the link rots in just a decade
| or two.
|
| I've recently begun using Ctrl-W to mark items to Read Later.
| It saves some disk space at the very least, and frustration
| years down the line at the very most.
| modeless wrote:
| Yes, I watch about half of them. Usually while doing the
| dishes or working out. Mostly listening, as I usually save
| interviews or lectures or podcasts. I never read the things
| I bookmark for later reading, but I have extra time to
| listen to things.
| mschulkind wrote:
| My solution is to clean things up on mobile. Swipe and click
| delete is a lot easier than that 3-dot menu, but still no bulk
| options.
| Saris wrote:
| Looks pretty useful!
|
| Does it have the option to automatically make the player full
| size? YT defaults to the smaller one with related stuff on the
| right which is always annoying.
| starik36 wrote:
| I would love a feature that if I change the speed on a video, the
| setting sticks across all videos on that specific channel.
| sevenf0ur wrote:
| Turning off video history will disable recommendations and shorts
| which improves my experience. An extension like this is right up
| my alley.
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