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Show HN: I built a cleaner YouTube – no ads, sponsors, or doomscrolling
22 points by Nina_F 7 months ago | 19 comments
  • Leftium
    I also made an alternate YouTube player with a different feature set (for sharing/reviewing segments of dance videos)

    - https://youloop.leftium.com

    - https://github.com/Leftium/youloop

    Your app gave me some ideas. Here are some ideas your app might use:

    - Load video by detecting YouTube ID/URL in clipboard

    - Hide YouTube "branding" in paused/thumbnail state. (Mostly to hide "More videos" UI)

    - (A-B) looping

    - Playback speed controls

    - Mute

    • Nina_F
      Most people won’t allow clipboard access, that’s why I never added the paste button.

      I’m already planning to use a different player to remove YouTube branding, playback speed controls, and other features.

      Thanks for the feedback.

    • RobotCaleb
      Please keep your paws out of my clipboard
  • Leftium
    A feature I would love to see in a YouTube player: better transcript view

    - Single click to open transcript

    - Transcript not crammed into tiny window in corner

    - Often I use the transcript as a navigation tool when (re)viewing a long video. Especially when I want to share a specific part of a video.

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    And I found a bug in SkipCut when clicking a FAQ:

    - If the video was started (then paused) opening a FAQ starts the video (audio).

    - Possibly related? often the browser jumps down the page, so the FAQ I clicked is not visible unless I scroll back up. (Or maybe it is scrolling the FAQ to near the top of the viewport? It's disorienting. If intentional, a smooth scroll animation may help.)

    • djyde
      Many language learning extension have this feature. They provide a transcript view beside the player.
    • Nina_F
      Thanks for the feedback. I will update it soon.
  • ibdf
    This looks really nice, but... you went so far to remove all the annoying things just to add some annoying notifications... you get about 3 of them per video loaded.
    • Nina_F
      Which notifications? Related Sponsorblock?? I will add toggle to off them in Sponsorblock setting soon.
  • Hiikyu
    just tried it out with replacing the youtube.com in url to skipcut.com and it seems like there is a bug where the video doesn't show

    keep up the great work!

    • Nina_F
      thanks for the feedback.
  • gigatexal
    How does it work?
    • Nina_F
      It uses an embed player, like how IMDb or any website uses it. When I added YouTube videos to my website, I observed that ads never show there, so I made it and added a sponsor block too. Now, I can watch videos on any device or share links without anyone installing anything.
      • Leftium
        I also noticed embedded YouTube videos don't seem to play ads. I am planning to make a beat-aware YouTube player, so I was wondering how ads would affect the timing...
      • netsharc
        Some videos don't allow embedding though, for example the Formula 1 channel disallow it for seemingly all their videos: https://skipcut.com/watch?v=QGTErgNcpDM
        • Nina_F
          Yes. Some videos are not allowed by channel owners.
  • ponta17
    I just tried it out. This is awesome!
  • OdehAhwal
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