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it's still a cesspool of crap. with some decent beginner tech tutorials on there from time to time.
by sharemywin 6y ago
it's still a cesspool of crap. with some decent beginner tech tutorials on there from time to time.
- dredmorbius 6y agoSturgeon's Law and all. Search, intent, and aggressive pruning of the crap-surfacing mechanisms (most especially recommended videos, comments on all but the very best channels) are your friends. The console-mode mps-youtube utility was for a brief, shining moment the best possible interface into the abyss, as it allowed: - Direct search - Viewing all of a specific channel's videos, or searching within them. - Compiling offline, savable, file-based playlists. It doesn't, AFAIK, permit blocklisting/whitelisting of specific channels, though that would be glorious. I'd made extensive use of this for a time, ultimately however the API was limited out and the tool is now effectively unusable. mpv and VLC however continue to rock hard. Cal Newport has a few browser extension recommendations which purge recommendations. You can achieve much the same result with uMatrix's "block element" feature, or CSS editors/managers such as Stylus. (Do NOT use "Stylish", which is now adware/malware.)