TIP OF THE FORTNIGHT
Remove clutter from YouTube
I’ve been using FreeTube (www.snipca.com/44339) every day since you recommended it in Issue 647 (page 18). Removing adverts from YouTube is definitely the best thing it does, but you can also eradicate all the other clutter that makes YouTube so hard to use these days.
Launch the program then click the top-left menu icon (three horizontal lines – 1 in our screenshot) followed by Settings 2. Now, on the right, click the Distraction Free Settings heading 3 and you’ll see several options to ‘hide’ elements on YouTube.
I don’t care how many times a video has been watched or liked, and I have no idea what a ‘live chat’ would entail, so I hid all those by. I also find most comments inane, so I hid those too. In fact, the only information I didn’t hide was the video description , which can be genuinely useful.
