My new favorite way of playing YouTube videos is using the mpv player.
Example:
$ mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DJMl3NXqXg
For browsing and searching YouTube, SMPlayer with the smtube addon works very well. smtube automatically plays the videos on SMPlayer as well.
No ads, no tracking. Watch web videos as if they are on your computer.
#YouTube #desktop #multimedia #techtips #mpv #mplayer #smplayer
@brandon I didn't look at it from this angle before. Don't the views get counted if the videos are not accessed from YouTube's own page?
@njoseph
The thing is that views don't exactly equate to money as not all views are monetized. Views that occur without any ads being loaded (whether through the preroll or an overlay, or even on the side) are not "monetized views".
jayztwocents said that only about 40% of his views are monetized as the rest of the people are using an adblocker
@njoseph No money given to the people who work hard to make the videos you're watching.
Do what you want but at least find a way to give back :)