Why YSK: Youtube’s enshittification creates an abysmal experience. There’s a list of Chrome extensions I’ve collected over the years that each fix an aspect of Youtube to bring back a genuine experience. I’ve seen in comments people mention one or two of these at a time, so this is a pack that contains everything you could need, and more.

Sample:

Essential Plugins:

  • Ghostery: Blocks trackers and ads
  • uBlock Origin: Blocks In-video ads
  • SponsorBlock: Skips in-video sponsor segments
  • Return Youtube Dislike: Returns the dislike button
  • DeArrow: Better titles and thumbnails, removes clickbait
  • Youtube Redux: Returns youtube to the older style
  • Style Bot: This tool allows you to edit CSS. With a bit of setup, you can use it to block sponsored videos from appearing in our video suggestions:
  1. Open Stylebot options
  2. Styles > New Style

URL: Youtube.com

CSS (copy and paste):

ytd-ad-slot-renderer,
ytd-rich-item-renderer:has(
  > #content
    > ytd-ad-slot-renderer
){
  display: none;
}
  1. Save Style and Refresh Youtube

Optional:

  • kepix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 days ago

    im pretty sure ublock blocks trackers, and does it in a more open way.

    “enhancer for youtube” is also great, i like how it only allows one video playback at once. has some visual customisation options as well.

    the other is “youtube search fixer” , which disables the related and recommend crap from the search.

    • gurnu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Clarification: you can set YT Enhancer to only allow one video to play, but you can enable multiple playback, too

      YouTube search fixer sounds like something I need, I hate that only the first ten or so search results are actually relevant