I recall that 5-6 years ago, temperatures around 30 Celsius were outrageous, unprecedented and unbearable here in Central Europe. Now, we’re seeing stuff like 40 degrees and we don’t even whine about it anymore.
What? We had way more than one 30°C day per Year in Germany, in the 90s. I remember these days quite fondly, because we’ve had a really great swimming bath.
What are you talking about?! In Poland it was quite usuall to get >30 deg for few weeks during summer. Actually last few years are colder than they were around 2010-2015 at least where I live. Climate is changing, that’s it. Calling it global warming is stupid.
40 was stupidly high and rare and now it’s still stupidly high but less rare and people very much still complain about it, 30 wasn’t super rare my entire life and i still complain about anything over 25 lol.
Local weather doesn’t mean much anyway, hottest 2 weeks on earth and where I live has been mostly pretty chill with 2 days that were actually hot (and those still only went to like 31). Pretty much the way i remember summer commonly being a while ago.
And just to be clear i am in no way trying to pretend climate change isn’t real, it’s real and we’re all royally fucked, but 30° really isn’t anything new and also saying “it was 40 degrees for a week” on its own doesn’t really say more than “global warming can’t be real it was -10 last week”.
I agree with you in spirit, but that last sentence is pushing it.
I get the whole weather vs climate thing, but this heat is going past that. It’s pretty difficult to not attribute this historically unprecedented heat wave directly to climate change.
I am primarily attributing it to that, especially since it’s affecting large parts of europe and also just the fact that it’s been a general trend. I just suck at phrasing sometimes.
My main point was really just that 30° in central europe has not been weird in the last 100 years.
Yes we have to look at accumulated data, not any particular data point or weather event. And so there will always be visceral rejections based on anecdotal experience which just feels more relevant than the actually-relevant data.
I use Firefox as my everyday browser and a Chromium browser for all my Google services.
Those of you that are using YouTube with Firefox, are you concerned about tracking while you’re signed into your Google account? Do you notice a decrease in performance while using YouTube on Firefox?
I absolutely notice youtube is worse in Firefox, presumably because of uBlock because I didn’t have any of these installed (except enhancer) before I saw this post. It’s particularly bad on mobile. BUT I think it’s still worth it overall top have a better experience.
For context, Trash Taste is a podcast run by anime YouTubers. They had Chris Broad (a.k.a. Abroad in Japan) as a guest and it’s safe to say, they’re very friendly with each other so of course they’d share content involving and about Chris there. Someone decided to share Chris’ frustrated tweet about North Korea throwing missiles in Japanese waters, jokingly suggesting that the Japanese military get some “Patriot missiles” (which I’ve been told are purely defensive). For the record, this isn’t the first time NK has done this, and it’s not the first time Chris has been openly frustrated at it.
This ban is ridiculous - it’s not like someone is actually being threatened. It’s just some grumpy British man living in Japan venting his frustrations over a dictatorship trying to bomb the country he’s living in.
I believe it’s because vanilla chromium doesn’t come with widevine or any of the closed source DRM binaries. Raspberry Pi org takes a pretty strong stance on open source.
Once we see no snowfall where it should be, arctics not freezing as they usually do, we know we fucked up. Wait…we’ve been seeing these patterns last year didn’t we?
Winter’s been weird in Michigan the last few years. Really really bad snow, then all gone in two days. No snow piles in the parking lots that last all winter.
In addition to some of the ones listed in OP, I use
YouTube Auto Like - automatically likes videos you open them (optionally only when you’re subscribed to the channel). If you’re on a Chromium browser, Google removed this extension from their web store so you can’t install it from there anymore. But you can install it manually if you want by downloading it from the Github repo here.
I also use the following userscripts:
Return Youtube Dislike - Does the same thing as the Return Youtube Dislike extension in the OP
Youtube Shorts Redirect - redirects Youtube Shorts to a full watch page, so you can watch them like a regular video.
Resize YT To Window Size - resizes the video player so that it fills in the entire dimensions of the browser window and moves video players to the top of the page so you can scroll down to see comments, recommend videos, etc.
YouTube CPU Tamer by AnimationFrame - reduces Youtube’s CPU usage during video playback. I don’t really understand the technical aspects but it’s all explained in the description of the userscript. This script IS NOT compatible with SponsorBlock!
Stuff I’m looking for (if anyone has any recommendations):
Remove duplicate videos from a playlist
display playlists in a grid layout instead of a list layout
You might be interested in pockettube. Not quite what you asked for but it does allow you to make groups of subscriptions and display those in a grid layout.
I seldom watch ‘random’ videos, mostly stick to a large curated list of channels I’ve grown to like over the years and I got sick of always having to remember to like or even go back to like videos (as doing my small part of channel interaction is the least I could do for them).
I enjoy all the videos of said channels (otherwise I wouldn’t be watching them…).
The auto like is set to happen after 30% of the video and is very easy to hit the 0 key or - key to unlike or dislike on the small amount of videos I watch that don’t deserve a like.
Pretty simple. A solution that works for many might not work for you and that’s just dandy.
Javascript might be the most widely-used scripting language in use today, due to its browser dominance. Most popular would imply that it’s not completely despised by everyone that has to use it, which is misleading. Even TypeScript tutorials are about 50% ‘you have to understand what Javascript does wrong here’.
Yeah ok I can understand Demoding me because you don’t like my ideology or instance (not to mention the hordes of liberals screaming “TANKIE”) but removing my comments that abide by the rules without a reason is just authoritarian
It’s bearable on smartube next if you have an android TV, firestick or similar
My biggest problem with YouTube is they keep giving me videos I’ve already watched and it seems they wipe them from the watch list very quickly to try and trick you into clicking it again.
I also hate the fact that if I say I’m not interested In something they take no notice and send it to my recommendations again regardless.
I suspect YouTube’s blacklist (do not recommend this channel / video) is length-limited. I recently noticed some of the oldest content I banned coming back in recommendations.
Feels like as I add more bans, the oldest ones get released. Really frustrating.
Really need a RES type addon for YouTube to keep a list of channels you want blocked. Really hurts searches too when it’s always the same popular channels populating the results because of popularity.
Extension is so awesome. Was satisfying just blocking channels with those open mouthed images or that yelled at the viewer at the intro, which is a lot when it comes to game channels.
It was surprising I actually did not have to go that block crazy. Just blocking like 10 was enough to make search results look normal. Crazy how much the algorithm leads to those few channels dominating the top search results.
Similarly, I’ve noticed more times recently where I know I’ve already seen the video years ago, and YouTube doesn’t have the red bar under it indicating I’ve watched some of it.
Yeah, I know it probably happens sometimes, but, this time, there’s been a really noticeable uptick.
if I say I’m not interested In something they take no notice and send it to my recommendations again regardless.
omg yes fuck this. I constantly get fed entire categories of videos on games which I actively hate; I have never watched a single video for any of them and have said “not interested” to probably 50+ videos, but they still pop up every day.
I love smartube next on my TV more then Youtube revanced on my phone. They should make a smartphone version! (I’m looking for an app where you can login, so not newpipe)
It doesn’t have to be Chromium, but asserting that Firefox is the only browser that respects your privacy is just untrue. Edit: I use FF and Brave for different browsing, as some websites just don’t like FF.
I don’t specifically mean the goDaddy site, I mean some sites that have gotten there certs from goDaddy won’t work. It will give an ssl error. I believe it is their wildcard cert specifically.
I don’t get why everyone is so mad about this. When I saw it yesterday, I was glad they finally put them into a separate box I can just scroll past. Before, Shorts were just mixed in between the normal videos in the subscription feed and that was fucking awful.
I don’t remember them ever in a separate section on the subscription page. Maybe it was just one of google’s A/B testing for some people or I just hid them immediately and forgot. :-)
I actually liked when they were together in single box, everything was ordered from newest to oldest and I had extension that redirected shorts to normal player. With separated boxes I feel like there isn’t enough space and now the shorts don’t get the ‘watched red bar’ so I don’t know right away which shorts I’ve already seen, I’m forced to remember the thumbnails now which is annoying.
I do wish they give customization options, so users can decide how to actually use youtube.
oh they moved it finally? i couldnt stand a feed full of annoying shorts making it harder to find actual videos i wanted to watch. i been using an extension for a while and cant go back to what it was then. if at least they are confined to a seperate list its not so bad
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