Same font, same colors, same placement

Is there some new AI tool or service that is redoing thumbnails for creators?

Seems even years old videos have this new thumbnail style

So youtube started ignoring “request desktop site” requests from mobile browsers again, even from tablets.

This is frustrating for a few reasons, namely because extensions tend to work best in the desktop view, and also because youtube disables certain features (transcripts, notification list) in the mobile view.

I like to avoid useragent spoofing whenever possible as it’s helping chrome’s dominance over the web

If anyone else is looking for a workaround, add &app=desktop to the URL

Anyway, hope this helps someone!

I’m looking for channel recommendations on youtube and if anybody has any good ways to discover good content that is of interest without having to go back to the youtube recommendation feed?

I no longer use the youtube recommendation feed. There was a time not too long ago when I realised the mind shatteringly destructive nature of it. I found this community as part of my search to escape big tech. However, I do still choose to use some big tech when it can be of benefit to me. I feel much more in control now. Using a VPN, linux and freetube allows me to use youtube instead of them using me.

The youtube recommendation feed used to allow me to find new content, every one in a million videos anyway. But now I refuse to use it. So, any channels you would like to share? Any ideas on how to find new content without having to go back to youtubes recommendation feed?

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/62726589

Apologies for the Reddit link - I've got to dig up the direct link. I'll update!

Eat shit, Ethan hahaha

MINSK, 6 April (BelTA) – The Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a statement regarding YouTube’s blocking of accounts belonging to Belarusian media outlets, BelTA has learned.

“On 3 April 2026, the YouTube administration arbitrarily removed the channels of the largest Belarusian national media outlets: BelTA, ONT, and STV. These media organizations form the foundation of the country’s information sovereignty and have millions of viewers both inside Belarus and abroad,” the MFA statement reads.

“By its decision, YouTube has effectively blocked millions of citizens and compatriots abroad from accessing legitimate, official content. This is a gross violation of Article 19 of the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and of the OSCE’s fundamental principles on media freedom,” the document notes.

The ministry emphasized: “What draws particular attention is the deafening silence of international structures. Those that traditionally react quickly and loudly to any, even the most controversial, cases of what they consider ‘restrictions on free speech’ in countries they disagree with are, this time around, conspicuously staying silent.” The ministry considers this a classic example of Western double standards: human rights matter only when the opinion in question is convenient for the West.

The Belarusian side is thoroughly examining all the details of the incident. “We reserve the right to take appropriate measures within the framework of national legislation and international law,” the ministry noted.

PipePipe is the most reliable for Youtube (well aside from Seal or other methods of using YTDL on Android), and Tubular is what I prefer for Bandcamp/Soundcloud/Youtube music videos, but the aggressive caching on Metrolist is what sets it apart for me, comes in handy while saving data whenever I forget to download a song.

Also, if you use KISS Launcher, this is the only thing that can actually read Youtube search URLs, and having a YT Music-specific search app saves a lot of time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur

https://www.telesurenglish.net/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27986359

Dave's been my fav 💻 Youtuber but this hasn't sat well with me. Many have relied on him for unbiased 💻 opinions then he made a 💻 ad. His ads shouldn't be re or related to a 💻, tablet or a 📱.

Hello,

does anyone know how to disable YouTube shorts? I get more and more of them, but I can't find the button to disable them permanently.

They're just annoying and cluttering my search results.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27215326

If 1 asks me re a great way to know re the Chernobyl disaster, I'll suggest this. 1 of my top series.

I asked myself "How about the Fukushima Daiichi disaster?" I had 3 ideas –

1. I found an eli5 explainer using Google.

2. Plainly difficult's vid (the best for me)

3. The days

Plainly difficult's vid is more detailed than the eli5 explainer so if you're in no rush, please watch.

I was at the 20:00 mark of The days episode 4 when I stopped due to its slowness. It'd be better if it had 4 or 5 episodes instead of 8.

even using FreeTube, i have to change audio track and subtitle settings almost non-stop...

it's slightly less annoying to see wrong/unnecessary subtitles. but it's pretty confusing/tiring when the algorithm interprets sound effects or music (instrumental even) as Hindi or Uzbek or something and i have to turn off subs even if there is no talking.

audio on the other hand 🤬👿👹

even if I watch a video not in either of my 2 fluent languages, i don't ever want to hear any dubbed/ai-gen audio track.

any idea if this is in YouTube's issue tracker?

regardless, in the absence of fix from YouTube side, any clue if this can be improved on the client side?

PS - any responses telling me to just watch peertube instead will be downvoted and user will be blocked. fyi i don't reject watching peertube but my chosen antidote for the corporate streaming disease is 🏴‍☠️

edit: forgot to mention the video title auto translation presenting any and all languages' videos as if they're in my language 👿👿👿

With how big online betting has been in advertising, I'm :o that Youtube will do it. But why exclude online sports betting and in-person betting? Ban everything.

I used to be able to do it fine on my computer without really needing to do anything, I don't know why that was, maybe something to do with ublock origin? I didn't really look in to it because it worked. Then I started having to actually deal with the problem because eventually the browser couldn't just load the video no issue anymore. I had to either use Newpipe on my phone or yt-dlp to watch locally. Recently neither of those options worked. I also tried invidious or other various proxies hosting youtube videos, they are met with the same age restriction issues.

My final last recourse had been using Shutter Encoder which somehow managed to download age restricted videos that yt-dlp couldn't which is odd because I was fairly sure it was actually using yt-dlp but now even THAT doesn't work.

For a long time, Brave was the best way to do it, but then Orion started supporting Firefox plugins. Safari had some extensions that also worked for a while. Ad blocking worked perfectly, I had many options, and YT was great again.

Recently, all of that changed when YT or Apple implemented something that makes video playback stop after 1 minute. At the moment, I just have to use a proper computer for watching YT, since mobile devices don’t have functioning ad blocking any more.

Has anyone else noticed something similar? Is is just my devices, or do other people have the same issues?

Even with premium I got a banner for YouTube premium. Due to my ad blocker the banner is empty, apart from the Premium logo, but I still got a banner.

This is quite the technical question and I doubt I’ll get an answer on this small community but I’ll try it anyways.

So I’m a very heavy YouTube user and comment multiple times pretty much every day for years. Over years I wondered why I haven’t received notifications when someone replied to my comments and only got notified when someone directly referred to my handle or sometimes when someone liked or a creator hearted my comment (which made my experience on YouTube very lonely since I never got anything back).

Now I figured out I disabled the specific notification setting responsible for comment activity called “Notify me about activity on my comments and posts on other channels” (I must’ve turned this off in the past prolly cause I got too many notifications) and after turning it on I randomly got notified about past comments from me that literally have thousands of likes and hundreds of valuable replies and interactions that I missed out on.

Now I’m wondering if there is any way I can get an overview over all the replies I ever received on my comments because I can’t go through every individual comment I ever posted since they’re way too many.

If there is no direct way maybe there is some script or some trick that can pull all the replies I ever got and maybe see my most liked comments to see all the interactions and comments I missed out on.

I bet there are many people who want to see all the comments they got on their own comments so an answer would be much appreciated.

It's garbage Honestly, there are so many bugs and inconsistencies, the channel circle button has a way big hitbox whenever I try to move the video forward by few seconds I get redirected to the channel of the video you can't minimize the video window when it's in full mode and the videos don't work after you pause seriously why is this happening