Youtube

When watching regular youtube vids using a web browser, you control the volume level of the video using the volume control in the bottom left of the video.

When watching youtube shorts, there's a speaker button that mutes or unmutes the video, but there seems to be no way to set the volume level. Am I missing something or does youtube just not include that feature for shorts?

On the website via desktop computers.

Drives me nuts as I never use the mini player function and it's a huge and frustrating disruption that I didn't ask for.

EDIT: actually I think I figured it out and it's probably nothing to do with YouTube apart from an unexpected design decision that's probably been around for a while and I never noticed. Turns out if you click and drag a video you're watching anywhere around the screen it launches the mini player. I'm not used to this kind of thing on desktops but I guess it's becoming the norm and could be helpful. I think I've been accidentally clicking and dragging just a little bit sometimes.

SponsorBlock is an extension that will skip over sponsored segments of YouTube videos. SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension that let's anyone submit the start and end time's of sponsored segments of YouTube videos. Once one person submits this information, everyone else with this extension will skip right over the sponsored segment.

With this extension, you will automatically skip YouTube sponsors.

The extension also features and upvote/downvote system with a weighted random based distribution algorithm.

More information about how it works: https://sponsor.ajay.app

Source code: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock

Privacy Policy: https://gist.github.com/ajayyy/aa9f8ded2b573d4f73a3ffa0ef74f796

What is with the "made for kids" bs? I know it's about COPPA compliance, but I also think YouTube bears some responsibility for how stupid they have made their system.

Basically, any video that is "made for kids" lacks most basic features. You can't leave comments, you can't add the video to the playlist. You can't use the miniplayer in the app, which is a UI feature. Why? Because the people who wrote COPPA are a bunch of boomers who don't understand the internet.

This would all be fine, because I don't tend to watch content that is actually for children. But as someone who has helped others upload video to YouTube, I know first hand how easy Google makes it for people to want to click the "made for kids" button even when their content is targeted to the general audience. Basically, people think "well, there's nothing in this video that is unsafe for children, so I must check the box then" which effectively handicaps anyone watching their video from using the most basic features.

This shit makes me so fucking angry.

The author installed Improve YouTube after reading gHacks’ praise for the extension’s bevy of features — there are well over 80 at this point, and more are added regularly. It does everything from outfitting YouTube’s website (or web app) with better controls and layout options, to blocking ads, comments, and unwanted channel recommendations, and way more.

Improve YouTube is available for FireFox and Chrome derivatives.

See https://lifehacker.com/this-might-be-the-only-youtube-browser-extension-youll-1846575110

#technology #youtube #browsers

My videorant thing about getting my first copyright claim as a new youtuber.

I 100% believe my usage was fair but the YouTube appeals system is skewed so hard in favour of the copyright holder (in this case a record label) so I decided not to push it.

Has anyone out there ever fought for fair use and won?

So I was browsing YouTube and I noticed it was listening to the mic while just watching videos, looking at the trending page, etc. I’m on iOS 14 so I don’t have access to f droid store wish I did but it’s Apple.

It's not what you think sweetheart. A short marriage story

https://www.thedrive.com/news/34554/some-of-the-most-impressive-backyard-engineering-weve-seen-goes-down-on-this-obscure-youtube-channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUdV7Xf9sT4

https://snugg.me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss-P4qLLUyk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbJGTKQ2NII&feature=youtu.be

https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2019/07/06/internet-monarchists-2/

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/06/joseph-mercola/youtube-bans-mercola-videos/

https://www.tutorialist.io/

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGLfVvz_LVvSX7fVd4OUFp_ODd86H0ZIY

Die-hard gamers compete to break world records on classic arcade games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zhMlFOyZvQ

https://joshuaaust.in/blog/2020/06/16/youtubes-bitcoin-scam-problem-appears-to-be-getting-worse/