I highly recommend the extension “Enhancer for YouTube” by Max RF, it adds a shit Tom of qol features
$(‘video’).playbackRate = 3;
via this comment from @Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml
It was never a free feature; they used to only allow up to 2X speed. Not that that justifies it at all of course.
laughs in NewPipe
Laughs in Grayjay
For people on „ios“ Unwatched app is good
Last I heard grayjay made the choice not to include sponsorblock
sponsorblock is included alongside a comment that you should support creators
Download it and play it however you want in VLC.
Lol nope, out of principle I will never pay for this even if I didn’t already hate Google.
It feels so condescending to the user, so unconcerned with their agency that I could never bring myself to support this choice with even a tiny amount of money.
Same here. I’m sick of seeing people say stuff like “just pay for Premium bro”. Stfu. That’s like paying the mafia for “protection” from them. YouTube created these problems and now I have to pay them to fix it? Fuck no.
100% agree. The problem is that there are more and more features that get tugged behind the subscription paywall
You can use
yt-dlpto download it and play it in whatever movie player you want that supports variable speeds, unless and until YouTube cracks down on downloading.I use jdownloader2. I think it uses yt-dl on the backend though? Like the original yt-dl. I’m not sure.
I was curious so I downloaded the Mac version of yt-dlp (as I am on Mac), couldn’t get it to run. And I’m comfortable with the command line.
YouTube kinda is cracking down on downloading though. If a video is marked as adult (you need to sign in to view it), it can’t be downloaded. A lot of “official videos” (like trailers from the studio) can’t be downloaded. Subtitles can’t be downloaded. That’s in jd2. Not sure about yt-dlp.
I think it uses yt-dl on the backend though? Like the original yt-dl.
You’re probably thinking of
youtube-dl. I’d guess that it most-likely used that at one point, but probably switched toyt-dlpwhen YouTube started throttling single-stream downloads.
This is only the beginning…
The beginning‽ They’ve been up to shit like this for years!
Enshitification Nation.
Why and what type of videos are you watching at 2x speed?
Idk what to tell you, a lot of youtubers talk pretty fuckin slow
I watch basically everything that isn’t music or advanced mathematics at 2x speed. YouTubers talk so slowly.
That’s what I wanted to know. Until I realised I don’t care how people watch YouTube and that it’s more annoying to me that Google is paywalling something that costs them nothing to implement.
I watch most IT/Technical videos at 1.5-2x speed. Especially tutorial style videos. Most creators use a very long and drawn out way of speaking in order to keep the viewer on the same page, but most of the time I know the core concepts already, so I don’t need the super detailed parts only the barebones.
I don’t know what YouTube does when you increase playback speed, but a lot of people who listen to podcast-type material or lectures will use software that has the ability to time-stretch the playback without changing the pitch. That is, we can often understand people perfectly well speaking more quickly than they actually do.
I imagine that some people are most-likely looking at content of that sort on YouTube.
This was a video of a machine treating pomegranate seeds 🤷 don’t ask
But it was filmed in a lot of detail and there was no need to watch the whole thing. The creators should probably have made a highlights video instead.
It’s for people who want to skim but not to read.
I would give anything to skim an article rather than sit through a 10 minute video for the one thing I need to know.
Just gonna leave this here (for desktop at least): https://github.com/codebicycle/videospeed
Use Revanced if you’re on android
Lots of ways around this, even on locked down iOS/iPadOS
Like…?
I use a safari plugin called Wipr. There’s another I’m aware of called Vinegar
Not if you know JavaScript…
