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Re:Tell HN: YouTube's web UI just got even worse by thewebcount on Friday October 28, 2022 @01:10PM (#33374262)
I use it like this:

* Never go to https://youtube.com to find anything. Only go to YouTube when it's a known link you found on another site. I don't need recommendations or ads

* Copy the URL, paste it into yt-dlp

* Wait a few seconds for the video to download and watch it in my viewer of choice with no crap attached.

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Re:Tell HN: YouTube's web UI just got even worse by opan on Friday October 28, 2022 @03:16PM (#33376225)
To add to this, you can directly play stuff in mpv if yt-dlp is installed and in your PATH.

Combine this with a window manager shortcut to open the clipboard contents in mpv and the experience is pretty slick.

You can also dump the URLs in a .m3u file and watch a bunch in a row with mpv that way.

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