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 9 months ago | parent | next [-]

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

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?

	▲	aspenmayer 9 months ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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
	▲	jraph 9 months ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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.

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