Lack of moderation - what are you talking about? It’s heavily moderated, everyone knows this. These kinds of things are just allowed to stay up because, well - you already know…
Not even touching the harassment and the hate speech and the doxxing, there’s a huge issue with spam and scammers happening with the comments. Will they ever address it?
If you only stick with smaller channels you won’t see it… for the most part. Smaller channels get a different kind of spam, usually asking to be friends or subscribe to their channels.
These frontends are very good but they have trouble displaying subtitles. You have to either choose one of the less used Invidious instances or go with Piped which has a weird bug where the subtitles aren’t properly displayed.
The popular instances disable subtitles for some technical reason. I think there’s a rate limit and they avoid getting blocked by YouTube? There’s a github issue, maybe you’ll understand it better than I did. If you need subs you should to go to the less popular ones. Piped doesn’t have this problem.
Here’s an add-on to remove YouTube comments from your sight. After I decided to stop engaging with them my mental health improved. YouTube’s lack of moderation has turned the comments section into a cesspool.
Lack of moderation - what are you talking about? It’s heavily moderated, everyone knows this. These kinds of things are just allowed to stay up because, well - you already know…
Not even touching the harassment and the hate speech and the doxxing, there’s a huge issue with spam and scammers happening with the comments. Will they ever address it?
Really, that shit is still going on? I thought they had handled it. I don’t really see any spam comments anymore, at least…
This is a video from a month ago made by a big youtuber: https://youtu.be/1Cw-vODp-8Y
If you only stick with smaller channels you won’t see it… for the most part. Smaller channels get a different kind of spam, usually asking to be friends or subscribe to their channels.
Ahhh okay - yeah, I do mostly just watch smaller channels. Makes sense.
you are a fucking godsend
You can also use an Invidious/Piped instance and disable the comments there + avoid most of the tracking
These frontends are very good but they have trouble displaying subtitles. You have to either choose one of the less used Invidious instances or go with Piped which has a weird bug where the subtitles aren’t properly displayed.
Oh, yeah, I’ve also noticed some issues with captions. Do some less-used instances not have this problem?
The popular instances disable subtitles for some technical reason. I think there’s a rate limit and they avoid getting blocked by YouTube? There’s a github issue, maybe you’ll understand it better than I did. If you need subs you should to go to the less popular ones. Piped doesn’t have this problem.
Ah, that makes sense; YouTube certainly imposes rate limits on queries.
For those who need subs and like using terminals, youtube-dl (or one of the forks) is capable of downloading videos along with subtitles
The cool kids use yt-dlp now smh
hey, now, I did mention forks
I started using yt-dlp when youtube-dl stopped being maintained (although I think it’s being maintained again now)