douginamug,
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Sometimes I need to watch a video on youtube.

Even if I quickly go fullscreen, there's enough time to be enticed by the algorithmically-addictive video on the side menu.

What browser magic can I most simply implement to hide the side menu?

kbal,
@kbal@fedia.io avatar

There's an extension called "Redirector" which can pretty easily redirect links to Youtube videos to an Invidious instance of your choice instead with a rule like .*youtube.com/watch?v=(.*) -> https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=$1 (set it to pattern type "regular expression" if you use that one.)

It's strange that the Invidious UI is so much better, but until Google improves their version I feel justified in doing this.

rosano,
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@douginamug if you already use userscripts then it's probably easy to do with css/js if not already packaged by someone else, but otherwise there might be an extension

smallcircles,
@smallcircles@social.coop avatar

@rosano @douginamug

Delightful humane design curated list has a bunch of #Youtube related things to try. Either an alternative client, or a 'declutterer' like Youtube Search Fixer (I haven't tested this one myself).

https://delightful.club/delightful-humane-design/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-suite-search-fixer/

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