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Re:I miss the programmable web (2021) by kixiQu on Saturday July 30, 2022 @12:25PM (#32288013)
Override the font on all YouTube text elements.

You'd probably think it'd be simple, right? This being the kind of thing that Cascading Style Sheets were designed to handle elegantly and gracefully?

https://maya.land/user-styles/youtube/

I always thought people on here were just cranks complaining about style bloat, because a lot of the "this could have been a text file" arguments were applied to things that were genuinely better with the presentation polish. But this? How can developer ergonomics be worth this?

Anyway, user styles and user scripts and bookmarklets are all great and I use them all the time. This level of Big Tech deformation of the basic web technologies makes them more annoying, but still not impossible.

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