How to stop YouTube from asking me to sign in

Raymond Lin said:
There is a solution to the "inconvenience" that you just refuse to use, ergo, a fight.

Plus, it's not a bad design, it's a great design, it is designed to do EXACTLY what it sets out to do, which is to get users to sign in (so they can track your viewing habit, yes, i am fully aware before you even go there), but you are fighting it, yes you are fighting it because you don't want that. You want to stay anonymous, which is fine. So, use a fake email address.

Truth is, nobody cares that you love watching cat videos.
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Or YouTube could honour my decision that I don’t want to sign in

Anyway, it’s by the by as the pop up is now blocked.

Thanks to those who provided some useful responses.
 
whitecrook said:
I've taken to watching and using youtube far far less that in than the past. There's too many adverts pop ups, and manipulation. and most of it is absolute tosh. I value my time more and more these days.

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Anyone around in the 'early' days of the interwebs/internets will recognise this as classic offline reading behaviour. Like when you used to dial up, download emails, news, and even web pages, disconnect, read them all, compose replies and then reconnect and send again. It's like that.

Take back control!
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Nice, thanks for that :)
 
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whitecrook said:
it's more of a mindful/philosophical approach. decouple yourself. either you get it or don't no offense. I predict a massive phase shift in peoples attitudes to ward this sort of thing coming in the next while. If I watch a vid on you tube and an ad comes up I X out the video. everytime. No video on youtube is worth me watching as ad no matter how small. I'm finding in the last few months that I X out of about 50% or more of anything i try to watch. I have a browser plugin that disables the first ad so I can click right through but mid roll ads are death.

as for saving time ? Well yes it does save time. I don't click recommended videos or get distracted into a youtube wormhole. That alone saves hours! And I watch far less than i would otherwise because I'm not just mindlessly 'watching youtube'

also i don't watch any adverts so I save all that time. You don't need a browser to use clipgrab. I can find what ever video I want directly. I can paste a link right in (in fact it detects copied links) and it downloads to a predefined directory. I don't have to wait for buffering. I don't get any mid roll ads (somtimes there's like 8 ads in a 15 min video and I have to wait a few secs then click past etc. It's just terrible.

What you describe above is like if you use sky plus to watch say corrie and you wait till 7pm then start the sky plus then wait till the end and watch it it. I'm describing creating a bunch of downloads that I can go back to and watch in my own time. The same way I don't watch Live TV anymore for the last 10 years, I am very surely just not going to ever watch 'live youtube' any more. I 'prerecord' and watch later.

the other thing to note is that i used to follow a bunch of youtubers and they'd put out a weekly video maybe 2. But tubers these days pump out constant content far to much to watch. the quality is down., its all just churn and numbers. not for me anymore
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Clip Grab works amazingly well, thank you!
 
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