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pockettube looks great, thanks for the recommendation!

i have it set to only like videos from channels im subscribed to, no issues so far personally. i manually liked most of the videos from channels im subscribed to before i discovered the extension, and i spend so much time on youtube that it became useful to me to automate the process. i wouldn’t be subscribed to them if i didnt like the content they make, so it’s usually fine for me to use youtube like this. i dont normally dislike videos, but when i do watch a video i dont like enough to go out of my way to dislike it, i can still manually dislike it. the extension does not lock the like button

positive interaction means the content creator will know people like the content and thus may be more motivated to make more of it, and for channels with much fewer subscribers (like in the hundreds or under 100) positive interaction can really mean a lot to them, especially for projects they spent a lot of time on and that they care a lot about

plus if the algorithm ever works right, liking more videos gives it more info to work with about my tastes and it should be able to recommend me videos more relevant to me and my tastes. if. if it ever works right lol, but i spend most of my time by far on youtube watching videos from channels I’m already subscribed to.

In addition to some of the ones listed in OP, I use

• YouTube Auto Like - automatically likes videos you open them (optionally only when you’re subscribed to the channel). If you’re on a Chromium browser, Google removed this extension from their web store so you can’t install it from there anymore. But you can install it manually if you want by downloading it from the Github repo here.
  
  I also use the following userscripts:

• Return Youtube Dislike - Does the same thing as the Return Youtube Dislike extension in the OP

• Youtube Shorts Redirect - redirects Youtube Shorts to a full watch page, so you can watch them like a regular video.

• Resize YT To Window Size - resizes the video player so that it fills in the entire dimensions of the browser window and moves video players to the top of the page so you can scroll down to see comments, recommend videos, etc.

• YouTube CPU Tamer by AnimationFrame - reduces Youtube’s CPU usage during video playback. I don’t really understand the technical aspects but it’s all explained in the description of the userscript. This script IS NOT compatible with SponsorBlock!
  
  Stuff I’m looking for (if anyone has any recommendations):

• Remove duplicate videos from a playlist

• display playlists in a grid layout instead of a list layout

• block youtube channels i don’t like

edit: fixed a formatting mistake

is it possible for multiple people to use one youtube premium subscription other than the family plan? we checked the family plan but there’s no way we can justify paying for it, far too expensive for us considering all our other expenses

edit: sorry replied to the wrong person

genuine question, how much does that really matter when it comes to performance? in my personal experience, on my system, edge does feel faster than chrome and most other browsers. but also, it’s not really a big enough difference for me for it to be a valid reason to use it over other browsers. like realistically i dont normally register these tiny fractions of seconds and milliseconds unless im deliberately payig attention for some reason. on the other hand, on my computer (and my bf’s computer (he runs Opera GX as his default browser)) at least, Opera GX is by far and extremely noticeably the best browser i have ever used in terms of performance, and it also uses the same engine as Edge and Chrome. i dont use Opera GX daily and i almost never recommend it to people but if i want to run some kind of browser based game or heavy interactive multimedia or website, or if i want to load something as quickly as possible, it’s basically the only realistic option on my system. before Opera GX, the closest thing that ever compared was Maxthon Nitro which was also based on Chromium. but Maxthon was maybe even less privacy friendly than Chrome lol. anyway, i can easily get 60+ fps in Opera GX in those situations where other browsers make me feel like im playing on the cheap Dells and eMachines i grew up with: lucky to get 10fps but still loafing pages in well under a second. i assumed this was because, although these browsers all run the same underlying open source technologies, each company has made their own proprietary changes to it in order to tweak certain things. in the case of Edge, better albeit forced integration with Windows, in the case of Opera, noticeably better performance. idk if Microsoft made changes that improved performance compared to Chrome on purpose, but that has still been my personal experience. on the other end of the spectrum, Vivaldi, even if i like it more than them, is often noticeably much slower than any of these browsers (often taking over a second to load big pages) and it’s also based on Chromium.

in terms of performance, on my computer, Firefox seems to be usually more or less identical to Chrome. not hating on it, i love firefox and it’s usually the first browser i recommend to ppl (when it’s not the first browser i recommend, that’s usually only because the person I’m talking to is looking for some kind of very specific or even niche feature that imo some other browser can do better than Firefox), but i dont notice a difference on my computer between it and chrome when it comes to performance. but im also not someone who cares that much about loading times, like i said these differences are often within milliseconds and i just don’t normally even notice unless im trying extra hard to pay attention, and im normally not. Opera GX and Vivaldi are outliers only because of how dramatic the differences are for me.