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Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40372957

fyi:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp lets you download videos (from youtube and also hundreds of other sites)

for desktop, https://mpv.io/ is free and lets you watch youtube (or any other video) at even more and faster speeds than youtube premium does, among many other features

for android, https://newpipe.net/ lets you play youtube in the background (and download videos, and block ads, ...)

https://ublockorigin.com/ blocks ads everywhere (and yes it does still work on youtube, at least in firefox anyway)

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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do NOT do it. I dont think the time saved is worth it. It hasnt changed irl stuff for me but any media feels painfully slow. I had to listen to a 1hr video conference with a group on 1x speed and I felt like I was being tortured. I had to refocused myself every sentence because i couldn't hold attention on sentences that were being said so slowly.

If you want to consume info fast then reading is way better.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

This is me but backwards sort of. Media has always been painfully slow for me and it wasn't until I found the playback speed settings that I could tolerate watching most things. ADHD is wild.