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  • How do I get YT's old web site design back?

    From Ant@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 29 13:58:48 2020
    My decade old PC crashed hard to lose my SeaMonkey v2.49.5 web browser's cookies. Now, YT is using its new layout instead of its old web site
    design layout. How can I get it back?

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Ant on Thu Feb 13 01:47:36 2020
    On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:58:48 -0600, Ant wrote:

    My decade old PC crashed hard to lose my SeaMonkey v2.49.5 web browser's cookies. Now, YT is using its new layout instead of its old web site
    design layout. How can I get it back?

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

    YouTube plans to remove the previous design soon, so this method will be obsolete.
    You have to change the cookie PREF in the developer console and set its
    value to f6 = 8.
    After updating the website, you should return to the previous design.

    Consider using https://invidio.us instead of YouTube because it is easier
    in terms of performance. However, image quality will be reduced.
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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Feb 12 20:59:02 2020
    [email protected]d <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:58:48 -0600, Ant wrote:

    My decade old PC crashed hard to lose my SeaMonkey v2.49.5 web browser's cookies. Now, YT is using its new layout instead of its old web site
    design layout. How can I get it back?

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

    YouTube plans to remove the previous design soon, so this method will be obsolete.
    You have to change the cookie PREF in the developer console and set its
    value to f6 = 8.
    After updating the website, you should return to the previous design.

    How do I do that?


    Consider using https://invidio.us instead of YouTube because it is easier
    in terms of performance. However, image quality will be reduced.

    Will it still let me log into my YouTube account to rate, comment, etc.?
    I don't see that option?
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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Ant on Sat Feb 15 00:28:52 2020
    On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:59:02, Ant wrote:

    [email protected]d <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:58:48, Ant wrote:

    My decade old PC crashed hard to lose my SeaMonkey v2.49.5 web
    browser's cookies. Now, YT is using its new layout instead of its old
    web site design layout. How can I get it back?

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

    YouTube plans to remove the previous design soon, so this method will
    be obsolete.
    You have to change the cookie PREF in the developer console and set its
    value to f6 = 8.
    After updating the website, you should return to the previous design.

    How do I do that?

    You can restore the old layout of YouTube (for now) by installing this
    script:
    https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/34818-youtube-restore-classic
    To be able to run this script, you need to have a user script manager.
    Since you are using SeaMonkey, I recommend using Greasemonkey Port to run
    the script:
    https://sourceforge.net/projects/gmport/
    This is the only active user script manager I could find for Greasemonkey. Slightly out-of-date installation instructions are available here: https://github.com/OpenUserJS/OpenUserJS.org/wiki/Greasemonkey-Port-for- SeaMonkey
    This method is easier than the one I briefly described earlier.

    I recommend, if possible, upgrading your system.

    Consider using https://invidio.us instead of YouTube because it is
    easier in terms of performance. However, image quality will be reduced.

    Will it still let me log into my YouTube account to rate, comment, etc.?
    I don't see that option?

    At the time of writing this item it was impossible to login to Google via invidio.us. However, it might be possible to do this in the future. You
    can also create an account without Google on invidio.us.
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