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Re:Show HN: I built a cleaner YouTube – no ads, sponsors, or... by Leftium on Friday June 13, 2025 @06:41AM (#44267331)
I also made an alternate YouTube player with a different feature set (for sharing/reviewing segments of dance videos)

- https://youloop.leftium.com

- https://github.com/Leftium/youloop

Your app gave me some ideas. Here are some ideas your app might use:

- Load video by detecting YouTube ID/URL in clipboard

- Hide YouTube "branding" in paused/thumbnail state. (Mostly to hide "More videos" UI)

- (A-B) looping

- Playback speed controls

- Mute

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Re:Show HN: I built a cleaner YouTube – no ads, sponsors, or... by RobotCaleb on Friday June 13, 2025 @11:14PM (#44273944)
Please keep your paws out of my clipboard
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Re:Show HN: I built a cleaner YouTube – no ads, sponsors, or... by Nina_F on Saturday June 14, 2025 @03:11AM (#44274756)
Most people won’t allow clipboard access, that’s why I never added the paste button.

I’m already planning to use a different player to remove YouTube branding, playback speed controls, and other features.

Thanks for the feedback.

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