Youlag is a FreshRSS extension that allows you to browse your YouTube and article RSS feeds through a modernized design that incorporates quality-of-life features.
It is designed for a distraction-free experience, for people who want to be intentional about their viewing habits.
Why?
Subscribe to creators via RSS without a Google account, stay free of algorithms, and access your subscriptions from any device. Youlag can also be used just for article reading.
Highlights v4.3.0
- Video entries supports direct links and can now e.g. be opened in new tabs.
- The floating miniplayer restores position and autoplays on its own when you navigate, so no more manually hitting play.
- Mobile: Swipe left side of the screen to open/close the sidebar.
- Hide description intro if it contain links; reduce chance of seeing sponsored content.
Other features
- Block incoming YouTube shorts
- Replace clickbait thumbnails/titles, via DeArrow
- Whitelist specific categories to use the video mode layout, leave rest in article mode
- Floating miniplayer that follows across pages; read articles while watching videos
- Supports Invidious
Find more details: https://github.com/civilblur/youlag
You can catch the previous thread here, where there was a discussion about this using Pinchflat: https://lemmy.world/post/42859073
Thanks, looks like it could work, bit more than I want, and it’ll need integrating, but it is what it is. I’ll see if it’s worth the pain to transition.
Of course there’s this…
MonkCanatella @sh.itjust.works English
I just have a somewhat annoying yt dlp script that runs on a schedule on my computer that downloads all my subscriptions. I tried everything else including pinchflat and it wasn’t really much of an improvement tbh.
followed by crickets. Such is life.