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How do you watch YouTube on your computer?

by sam29681749 on 3/15/25, 8:20 AM with 3 comments

I used to watch youtube via chrome with a couple of extensions (adblock, unhook, clickbait remover), but adblock now seems to be hit and miss so it's a pretty poor experience.

I get if I was on android I could just use newpipe or something, but is there a browser-based equivalent I can use on my PC(I'm typically on a work computer (win11) & don't have local admin)?

  • by bhaney on 3/15/25, 9:34 AM

    I watch youtube videos in mpv, which grabs the videos using yt-dlp. I think I have some kind of sponsorblock script loaded into mpv too.

    I tried to play a youtube video in-browser the other day for the first time in a while and noticed that it just stopped playing exactly 19 seconds in. Every other video I tested did the same thing. Didn't care enough to look into why because it still works fine in mpv/yt-dlp, so I'm fine with the website just being nonfunctional.

  • by bbazuu on 3/15/25, 8:53 AM

    I pay for premium and get no ads

  • by needcontainers on 3/15/25, 9:01 AM

    I never see ads when using Firefox