+1, this has been my preferred use of Youtube for several years, via youtube-dl [1]. At least when it comes to talks and lectures, the relevant part IMO mostly

+1, this has been my preferred use of Youtube for several years, via youtube-dl [1]. At least when it comes to talks and lectures, the relevant part IMO mostly lies in the audio; visuals are rarely of essential importance. An audio-only minimalist youtube.com front-end (with video thumbnails entirely disabled) would be nice to have. 1: to extract only audio: youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=somevideo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=somevideo