YouTube sucks now. Here's how to fix it.
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
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Remember when RUclips used to be good? Me too. Are you tired of RUclips's changes to the site, like removing the dislike bar, blocking adblock, and adding Shorts? Or just tired of rampant clickbait, scammy sponsors and non-stop distractions? I'll show you how to fix all of these issues and more in this video.
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Return RUclips Dislike: returnyoutubedislike.com/
SponsorBlock: sponsor.ajay.app/
Dearrow (clickbait remover): dearrow.ajay.app/
Unhook: unhook.app/
uBlock Origin: ublockorigin.com/
uBO troubleshooting: / megathread
uBO status: drhyperion451.github.io/does-...
Hide RUclips Shorts: github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hid...
NewPipe: newpipe.net/
Sources:
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/...
0:00 Intro
0:35 Return the dislike bar
2:03 Skip sponsored segments
5:28 Remove clickbait
8:17 Remove distractions
9:58 Remove ads
13:28 Remove YT Shorts
14:47 What about on mobile?
16:31 Conclusion 
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I'm one of the filters maintainers for uBlock Origin's official lists. I'd like to point out that you're meant to import that shorts filter list, not copy it's contents to my filters.
You are doing the lords work
Heroe, Legend!
Quick question...why did Ublock Origin change the name "whitelists" to "trusted sites" in order to support diversity and inclusion and avoid "supremacist" language? Are people right to be suspicious of sending all of their web traffic through their app if that's the kind of thinking going on there? What might they do in the future?
@@hammondOT What? It's always been "trusted sites". Well, at least as far as I know, it has been since 2020.
@@Proferk Nope. Used to be called whitelist. They said it was for sensitivity, diversity and inclusion purposes and deleted all posts asking about it on reddit.
lock your doors bro they might come after you and make you disappear for showing everyone how to remove ads
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@@EricMurphyxyz Don't worry, we will make a yearly festival to celebrate your matyrdom! :3
my jaw dropped when the extension removed the fucking awful clickbaity thumbnails - I love it
The dev is also pretty based too with their responses on Firefox reviews
Revanced does this too
@@subgivtara The extension is open-source so the revanced patch devs built it in to revanced youtube
@@AEleven-4-Podcasts there are more devs so different revanced apps
It's paid tho.
The over-censorship sucks too.
Thank you. People on this site immediately try to get your posts taken down to shut you up. Meanwhile, every day I read comments about women that would be hate speech anywhere but here.
@@SaintVodou not to mention all the weirdly sexual videos and even ads that are marketed towards children.
Why can't I say sh*t :/ it's not that bad and kids have their own RUclips
This is what is driving me away from all Google crap. Found I'd be in a youtube live chat, and look at the results in my other youtube account, and my comments would often not show up. Certain keywords seemed to trigger it but they had to be include other words, mostly comments involving a small put powerful and basically racist country in the middle east. Decided I'd had enough enriching such a censorship driven company. Not to mention the obvious cooperation with the govts regarding COVID.
yeah,youcant evensayfknjew or theyll ban you from commenting , fukfreeespeach right ?
Having been on RUclips and uploading videos for 18 years, I can certainly say that RUclips has gotten worse and worse over the years. Too many ads, declining video views ( subscribers are no longer notified when you post a video, and worst of all, RUclips Shorts.
Especially bad for small channels like me who's struggling to get anywhere on this stupid site
@@shawklan27Same for me 🤦♂️
@@unchi1999 i subbed to you if that's any help
RUclips is shooting itself by changing the algorithm. It used to be the GOAT platform for content. Back then, people could actually customize our profiles, send video responses and have a community. Sadly, those features got killed off. The internet used to be fun now it’s neutered by corporatism. What a fucking pity
Now? It's sucked for years
Yes it has been sucky lately but the title sounds better and it's still true, also I agree with the video
Instagram user comment 💀
RUclips does not suck, it all depends on how you use it
@@ghaithzakk Does too, objectively so
It's getting worse though so we should still try to combat it while we can. The search feature is particularly garbage.
lack of competiton is the biggest reason
For Mobile: Don't use NewPipe when you have many options such as Revanced Extended and other forks. No ads, no shorts (can be toggled), dislikes visible, sponsorblock integrated, hundreds of customization options, etc.
are there any significant differences between Revanced Extended and original Revanced? I've used the latter and my experience is pretty fine as long as I remember to manually update it
Where can I find revanced extended for ios?
@@lamron1202 Switch to Android I guess.
@@lamron1202 I dont think Revanced is available for IOS
Last time using ReVanced Ext. 50% of videos stopped working, no matter how new they are. Is it fixed?
We need more competitors to RUclips lol. The fact that I need multiple extensions to make RUclips better is criminal.
Odysee is a good alternative, but it buffers, the community is small-ish, and there are not enough features.
Odysee allows literal nazis there, that's no alternative
@@5fr4ewq no, they don't💀
nice to see you here lol
louis rossman made an app and his team is developing a desktop version right now, look it up
solves this problem completely
Rumble has plenty of users, albeit it does tend to attract more alt-content that's banned from youtube.
RUclips is the second most popular website on the planet. No matter how much we try the multi billion dollar company that owns it can just advertise youtube harder.
Ironically, I *WAS* paying for RUclips Premium Family Plan (since it was launched as Red) before they went to war with adblockers, but I cannot abide them doing this due to the amount of scams and malware I have to clean up for our clients because of these ads. I actively support creators, and I've no problem paying for RUclips, but the war with adblockers I cannot abide and I will not pay RUclips one dime until they stop this. Yes, I know I'm going to die on this hill, but I'm fine with that.
At least you have good sense and larger perspective on how most people feel during YT's crackdown against adblockers, compared to other very annoying premium users that just spamming "Y'all don't want ads? Just get premium bro" in the comments
Same here. I had been paying for RUclips Premium since the days that it was called Red. As soon as I saw what they were going to to the experience of people using ad blockers, I immediately cancelled my subscription and starting using Revanced since they thought it would be fun to kill Vanced.
I use Ad Blockers, AND YT Premium. The AdBlockers still stop several dozen requests even though I have Premium! I use 4 different AdBlockers: Ublock, AdBlock+, AdBlock, and Malwarebytes.
I'd had Premium for years. The dollar amount isn't that much for the services but what irritates me is RUclipss censorship and Googles unethical political decisions overseas, when it comes to their business model.
So, from now on I'm not paying for any service from Google.
And clearly, as you stated, it's obvious they don't have their users best interests at heart
I was paying for RUclips Premium since the moment it launched as Red too. Last year, they told me they were planning to raise the price, even though nothing new was being added to the service to be worth it. In addition to that, I started seeing full screen ads for the NFL garbage RUclips wanted to sell. Three within the span of 2 hours in the Android app. So now I have an "ad free" service that's about to increase in price and isn't ad free anymore? Heck no. I cancelled it. I split the money I was paying to RUclips among creator's Patreon accounts instead.
Also, RUclips would do well to unbundle things from Premium. I don't want and never used Music, I don't want and never watched Originals, I don't want and never used Downloads, etc. I just wanted ad free RUclips. They should make a lower, ad-free only tier (and make sure it's ACTUALLY ad free) that costs less for people who don't care about all that excess garbage. They were starting to turn into Amazon Prime with all these "value adds" that I don't want and will never use and don't want to pay for.
Flabbergasted over that there where no mentioning of Revanced for mobile alternatives 😢
Im still holding out, revanced was technically discontinued but is still working as of now.
Too hard to install >_
4:16 "I mean I wouldnt know anything about that"
*submits that as a filler tangent/joke*
Who's gonna be the first one to sponsorblock this video?
Lmao u actually did it
@@EricMurphyxyzI did
Bro turned RUclips into Vivaldi-level, User self customization RUclips. No wonder Google just want to push Manifest V3.
For android your best option is RUclips revanced. it used to be called just vanced before but they got sued or they were about to get sued and after a while it got removed. This is i think another team that started handling the project basically it gives these features without sacrificing of any of the features and visuals like newpipe or firefox. So you'll still just be using regular youtube:
·Pop up window
·Ad block
·Background play
·Automatic sponsor, filler, intro skippers (more
advanced than the extension)
·Customization
·New playback speeds
·enhanced bitrate which is only for premium
·return dislikes
·dearrow (the clickbait thumbnail remover)
There's a few more neat features but these are the ones most people are interested in.
I just checked and there's also DeArrow option too
RUclips is just one example of why Big Tech corporate monopoly sucks.
Dearrow doesn't serve much purpose for me, because I usually just browse my subscription feed for the latest content (recommendations is just outright broken for me), and most of channels I subscribed to stayed within a reasonable approach to the thumbnail designs, I also use Unhook to redirect my RUclips's home page directly to my subscription feed.
Times like these is when I am glad to be a tech-savvy dissident, too bad most of other users aren't.
I think utube has become a depressing I'm DYING, go fund me entity. I can't watch anymore. The world is depressing enough. For the people looking to unwind and watch entertainment utube is probably not going to be the place you want to find that. Any suggestions to get away from the misery and sometimes barbaric videos stripping human dignity away from patients on their last breath. So disappointing 😞 you tube. Later.
Not.
A quick mention: unhook does also allow you to remove shorts, so the uBlock stuff isn't totally necessary. However, since that's just a toggle away, there's definitely a case to be made as far as setting up a more-annoying-to-undo blocklist!
Does Unhook remove shorts? I think it only hides the Shorts tab, but the recommendations on the home page remain.
@@EricMurphyxyzBtw, uBO is against usage of multiple content blockers (not just ad blockers, any content blocker). But it's fine as long as you make sure that it's not your extension causing the issue before reporting to uBO.
@@EricMurphyxyz Looking at my home page (which I have redirected to my subscription page), I'm not seeing any shorts, and Unhook is the only RUclips-related add-on I have!
You're baack, i thought for sure you got greenpilled and evolved to the final form of a linux user, the farmer
Gonna try a few of these. Thanks! Also, good info on how to update UBlock. Just yesterday, when I clicked on several YT vids, I would get a black video with the time reading 15 or 30 seconds, meaning that the filter was not working properly and ads were trying to get through. It's disturbing, seeing as I have never watched ads on YT in my life.
Sounds like RUclips's fighting back
be careful. ublock is different from ublock origin. the original creator of ublock got kicked out, and is now working on ublock origin. I wouldn't recommend the current ublock as its maintainer is shady
I also suggest the "Enhancer for RUclips" extension. It adds a lot of useful features, like converting shorts to normal videos, adding custom video speeds, hiding shorts, video pop-up while you scroll through the comments, add keyboard shortcuts to switch between video qualities and a lot more.
Also if the video thumbnail sizes are too large and you hate it, try reducing the zoom to 80-90%, the sizes do go back to decent.
Lmaooo that ad placement was genius
Love it! I am already using the adblocking, the endcards, and the Return Dislikes, but I'd love to rid myself of those nasty 'shorts'. Thanks!!!
You forgot the comment consorship which went insane since chatbots and those shadowbans I can't say what I wish tot he person who invented that sinister tech. I'll keep using adblocks and won't use YT premium unless they unmute normal adults if a person can't cope with some negative comments just leave the freakin internet and kids don't belong unsupervised intot he internet anyway.
Yeah, you gotta be very careful with what you say in your comments these days
Yeah so many normal comments of mine get deleted
@@Zippy_ZoltonSame. Any mildly negative comment I make is deleted.
I am trying to limit the number of extensions in my browsers, for security reasons, but the one filtering out the sponsorships looks like a good one to have.
What I hate in thumbnails is: AI images, often exaggerated, and real faces with crazy expressions, like if we were bunch of toddlers here, that they have to go to these measures to get our attention. I told youtube not to offer me a few of those already. And those pointing fingers on certain wording in the thumbnails, like if they didn't show me where to look I wouldn't know?
I don't mind if your channel looks boring, I like it being real and down to Earth. Keep doing the great job.
RUclips shouldn't have thumbnail pictures! They may look nice, but they can also be deceiving. Better just to select from some still photos from the video as the thumbnail, that way people can see what's really in the video.
that yt short remove part was helpful, thanks.
i became so unproductive because youtube shoved shorts in my face, i could be searching for a tutorial and then some shorts appear and it would be so annoying
The real fix is for everyone to jump ship and use an alternative video sharing service
Thank you so much for this video, it was very informative and useful. I use a few of the extensions you mentioned and I am happy to have learned about a few more that I will definitely try out!
i just got the dislike extention, i can now tell that this video has 3 dislikes
It's true
When I don't ask for subscriptions or likes, I find that they go way down very quickly.
Thank you so much for the video. You deserved more subsribers and likes. Even though you do the same like clickbait title and thumbnail, you still show to the viewers how to block it.
Also I personally recommended another extension like PiP and Enhacer for RUclips as well if someone maybe find it useful.
I like how sponsorblock blocks segments in this video
I love how you say "like the video subscribe-" and youtube actually did the new flashy thing at 3:51, mistaking you for actually just doing that "interaction reminder."
They've now destroyed the watch later option. Can't even see my videos on there. I've had it with youtube.
the unhook extension mentioned earlier also has an option to block shorts
I usually ctrl+w when sponsor speak starts in a video
RUclips feels like a Bethesda game now, it's unplayable and unenjoyable without mods.
i actually made my own extension in this regard, also related to shorts, however, what it does, is when opening in a new tab it automatically opens in the normal youtube player, so one can still change playback speed, skip back in the video, etc. basically a normal video lol and most importantly does not invite to doomscrolling
i'm no coder at all so still on and off trying to understand how to put it online for it to be properly installed
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I already do all of this, thanks for spreading the word
Did you try out the "Enhancer for RUclips" Plugin?
It has soooo many cool features like:
- easier speed manipulation (e.g. via scroll)
- cinema mode
- enhance volume
- screenshot current frame in video
- popup Player
- create loop (even a certain section of the video if you want)
Excellent plugins, have been using some of them for years, but there were a couple I didn't know of. Thanks!
I hope more Chromium browsers will have the option to run ublock origin in manifest v2 mode, and not just Brave. Otherwise I'll switch 100% to Brave (fast & blocks ads properly with manifest v2)
I hope they just push people away from Chrome. The monoculture web browser reminds me of the IE6 days.
@@chrimony firefox isn't any better. they barely ship out any good features
@@eatstudio9244 I don't want features. I want a stable browser that works with the plugins I want that doesn't spy on me.
Whenever I comment something it gets deleted
Hey bro ! How ur homepage feed showing without login ? Since youtube blocking recommendations videos in homepage when your youtube watch history is paused or signed out ?
Don't forget their crazy AI that instantly shadow bans any comments if they are 1% "critical".
hey, do you know by any chance how to get rid of new yt look? its so bad that i cant belive they implemented it
uBlock Origins (in Firefox) just doesn't work anymore since beginning of July. No matter what I do.
10:27 Bullshit! In another 2 years, after hemorrhaging more ad revenue, they will justify (ridiculously, I might add) putting ads on Premium; starting with one ad before the video, then another ad after the video, until Premium starts to look like free YT 5 years ago, while free YT itself enforces _completely_ skip-free ads, even if the ads are 5 minutes, 10 minutes or even a full hour long; with some of those ad breaks popping up every 2 minutes, 2, 3 or even 4 ads per break!
Fortunately there is NewPipe, to clean up the mess _before_ a video is played.
10:26 "Are they gone now" lol
awesome info thanks mate.
Thanks a lot. I was wondering if there was any sort of RUclips Shorts blocker. Works great.
Good to see you uploading again, hope you're taking care of yourself g
Thanks for the support!
I don’t mind there being recommended videos it’s that the recommended videos show you the same freakin shit all day long. I miss the days when RUclips would give you completely random funny memes and videos that were entirely unrelated to your interests.
The recommendations on my homepage always suck bad now.. youtube must be replaced
Another option is to not use RUclips 😅 Of course this does not work for everyone.
There are alternative front-end services available like invidious, Freetube.
There are also some Command Line Applications that just allow you to watch a specific video, however I'm not sure these have sponsor block, they don't have any ads or interface except the video player itself and the terminal😅
Return RUclips Dislike doesn't work atm, I don't see the dislike bar despite having it installed.
What I missed in this video how to get rid of that awful update where comments section move to the right.
I’d appreciate not having a “liked” album.
That’s why I stopped “liking” videos, I would delete everything in the folder every other day.
Watch RUclips crack down on these extensions (or try to) like they did with Adblock (Again try =/= succede) but instead of using their ressources to improve the website, they'd rather waste money on loosing a war against adblockers than try and improve their service.
As for sponsor block the only reason I don't use it is because I watch a handful of channels who make their sponsored bits very entertaining it'd be a shame not to watch those.
You forgot RUclips search fixer extension
you deserved my sub my bro, keep up this good content !
Thanks for this!
What are your thoughts on using /etc/hosts and userContent css?
This is the information I needed. Thanks
Thank you!
My RUclips’s *“Favorite List”* is missing. It was on the left side under “History.” Any ideas how to restore it?
can you make a video about returning the old youtube layout?
The key is users need to be smarter. I regularly clean out (unsubscribe) from any channels that start doing repetitive clickbait, post tons of shorts, generate content with AI, or are just stagnant. I click "don't recommend channel" to certain stuff that appears on my home page. I haven't seen a Mr Beast thumbnail in months. Don't watch based on your home page, go to your subscriptions page and see what's recent, that's what it's there for. Use the notification bell for the best channels.
So June 2024 is the day Chrome loses its user base. I never use Chrome, but good to know.
This is great, thank you so much!
People keep hating on RUclips even tho they’re still gonna use it
i finally can watch this video because this dumb error not letting me watch anything except refreshing page
is there a list for blocking youtube movie & tv shows?
Welcome back Eric!
All these extensions poor CPU processors.
Yeah, I don't use all of these extensions. Just install a couple of your favorites.
Fun fact, Return RUclips Dislikes doesn't work for me anymore, because RUclips has screwed up my page, so everything that was under the player Is to the right, and everything that was to the right Is under the video
Oh, I saw a timeworks video about that, so I've seen how terrible that looks. I'm so sorry for you.
@@ego-lay_atman-bay It's fixed, hallelujah!
@@TaurusTheCrazyBull yay!
additionally on the RUclips shorts part, if you do want to keep shorts but hate how distracting it is, there's also an addon where you can convert shorts into normal video format, that way you can keep the normal YT viewing experience
Sounds interesting. What's it called?
@@EricMurphyxyz there's a couple in the chrome webstore, though this is the one I use: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/shorts-to-normal-player/cmhmepchidgajcngdkpdchbdboheihgi
Firefox also has an add on for it, I tried this one and it works fine:
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-shorts-as-videos/?.mozilla.org&
Thanks for the sponsorblock!
Brotha is alive! Btw, give AstroJS a try for a project it's like Hugo and I'm willing to bet you'll love it.
I've tried it before and even made a video about it a long time ago. But I tried it again recently and wasn't as impressed. I might talk about that sometime
The one thing RUclips should push is preventing non-logged in users from using RUclips. It will be very easy for them to implement. Visitors to RUclips will just see a log in page. Those of us who log in will be unaffected by the change.
Thanks bro 🙏
Skip highlight needs an update so there can be multiple highlights.
I use the extension 'Improve RUclips' to make the sidebar disabled by default but with a toggleable "show" button for it instead of completely getting rid of it.
Also for mobile there is youtube revanced
Ridiculous. I don’t use it anymore. Bunch of trash!
thank you for the video bro 👍
obviously I had ublock origin from before but I also have made a few custom userscripts, one to hide the recommended videos at certain times of day (ie. at night when I should be sleeping) and one to hide youtube shorts (and redirect all shorts pages to regular /watch pages). This video did lower the threshold for me to try out those community-sourced addons like sponsorblock and return yt dislikes though, maybe even dearrow which I hadn't heard of before.
Eric, im new around here on your channel, but I'm behind you 100%.
I’m actually using a modified version of RUclips on my IPhone and it allows almost everything that those extensions do. So yeah it’s possible on an iPhone
when youtube started blocking ad blockers I just used a different ad blocker, untill that one didn't work anymore and I stopped using them for a little while and then started using them again and it worked.
the return dislike addon doesn't work on the new layout btw
There's also Grayjay which aggregates videos by creators from multiple platforms.
That's basically the equivalent to Voldemort on youtube so I wouldn't blame him not mentioning it if he does know about it
@@mnzkrhpsdsbut he mentioned newpipe, and grayjay is newpipe but better
Does anyone know how to do it on iOS?
I think we could fix this if we band together and force Neil Mohan to step down as CEO.
And onto a treadmill.
on iPhone I watch YT with google chrome browser app, for some reason I get no ads that way.
you also forgot youtube unrounded thumbnails
I don't mind RUclips Shorts, so I force them to open like normal videos.
Revanced allows you to use all those features with the stock app ui
I also use an extension called "RUclips Redux" it restores the old 2015ish UI and youtube looks like in the good old days
Crazy the people on YT are allowed to eat food & take a paycheck home.
When it was the original creators and millions of users that made YT what it is today.
Now they want to control something they didn’t create.
This is what happens when you give little people too much responsibility
I’ll add one thing:
The curse of the free energy videos and other doofus.
And they get literal 10s of millions of views from BS.
RUclips sucks because of the censorship
Lifesaver! Thank god