[DoingIsLearning]

I whole heartedly refuse to use the youtube app or youtube on a vanila browser. If I use youtube it is typically because someone sent me a link. I used to open it in firefox with ublock (both on desktop and Android).

Youtube has gone one level beyond with the auto play nuissance and the new hostile EU consent forms. I am at a point that I will just refuse to engage with the platform and only play a video by copying the video id into the url:

www.youtube.com/embed/<video-id>

And then just open it in ff or mpv

They could have extracted a fortune with banner ads and the like. But it is never enough for shareholders, they wanted to scale this further and keep hogging data and profiling everyone.

Targeted advertisement should be as illegal as robocalls.

[hprotagonist]

>I am at a point that I will just refuse to engage with the platform and only play a video by copying the video id into the url:

n.b. that if you have `youtube-dl` and `mpv` built with lua support,

  mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...` 

Just Works. Also handy for red-band trailers.

Further, you can also do things like

  mpv --no-video https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=5qap5aO4i9A  # chilled cow      

which is very nice inside a tmux pane or something.