Comment by NelsonMinar

Comment by NelsonMinar a day ago

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It's horrible that the web has come to this, a need for a browser hack to restore the UI that some website hacked off.

montag a day ago

Product designers are going to experiment...Vote with your feet. Don't use horrible products. The only thing worse would be EU mandated progress bars

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mrgoldenbrown a day ago

I would love to vote with my feet. How do I watch YouTube or Instagram content with VLC, or some other user friendly video player?

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- aspenmayer a day ago
  
  Look into LibRedirect and the projects it uses and also things like youtube-dl/yt-dlp.
  https://libredirect.github.io/
  https://libredirect.codeberg.page/
  > A web extension that redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and other websites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends.
  https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends
  https://github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends
  https://www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36146076
  
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- jraph 21 hours ago
  
  mpv understands URLs to these websites and uses yt-dlp to download them.
  On KDE, I assigned an action to open some URLs with mpv, which means I can play then from the clipboard manager or the copy menu that is displayed when copying if it's enabled.
  
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ryandrake a day ago

At least users can [for now] do this on the web! Try fixing poor UI on a locked-down native mobile app.

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