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The FullMutant Chao • Artist/Animator • Enby/Pan • Autistic
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People have been asking this question, are you tired of unskippable ads, sponsors, blatant designs and everything else that makes you miserable you can't escape from? welp... me too.
Y'know what, i'm taking you back in time introducing... "Project VORAPIS (V3)" and "StarTube", It's a classic youtube experience mixed with an extension and a userscript seperated that you can use right now, i would say between 2012-2017 if it's stable enough to get that true experience of classic Youtube without that overblown ads spreading around the site as uBlock detected there aren't much and that's a life saver not to use up all that data that can break the site (if you stay there too long), and there are some customizable settings for V3 and StarTube that you can switch between themes you would prefer (either Stargazer, Aozora, Cosmic/Epic Panda or Hitchhiker), i use Hitchhiker Late 2013 cuz i have a 1080p laptop so this one's right for me and it can just be me as well the more i get comfortable with it and with those themes the Homepage is much less bloated and more catagorized and i really missed that feature that YT had the balls to remove, you can tinker the theme with Topbar, Player, Watch/Channel Page, etc. if you'd like especially with Dark Mode on V3 in case the white background hurts your eyes, that's pretty much it and i wish i could say more about it.
Although, i wouldn't say it's perfect, there are some bugs that can break the site especially with the player and the description section, so you might wanna send feedback for them to fix one of those kinks and look forward for future updates from here and out.
Overall, it's an excelent extension/userscript combination, if you wanna go back in time to re-live classic Youtube, the link is down below and give these people who made these projects support, they truly needed kudos! <3
https://vorapis.pages.dev/
https://github.com/lightbeam24/StarTube
Oh and... uh... delete your Youtube app on your phone (if you have your Android phone at least) and stick with alternative frontend ones with no problem at all.