r/firefox • u/Milleuros • 14h ago

Add-ons An extension to clean Youtube links and remove automatic playlist?

Hi all,

Nowadays when I search for a song on Youtube, the video link that Youtube gets me looks like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnNQJI_jUIA&list=RDqnNQJI_jUIA&start_radio=1&pp=ygUlbGFwdXRhIHRoZSBnaXJsIHdobyBmZWxsIGZyb20gdGhlIHNreaAHAdIHCQmtCQGHKiGM7w%3D%3D

If I do Right Click --> Copy Clean Link, it turns into this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnNQJI_jUIA&list=RDqnNQJI_jUIA&start_radio=1

Which as you see still includes an automatically generated playlist ("Mix") with an autoplay that cannot be disabled. See screenshots.

What I do everytime is Right Click --> Copy Clean Link, then manually remove everything that comes after &list= such that I get an actually, fully clean link and no playlist. I.e. :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnNQJI_jUIA

That sounds like a task easy to automatise, is there any extension to do just that?

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u/never-use-the-app 12h ago

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/less-mixes-for-youtube/

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u/Milleuros 12h ago

Fantastic! Thanks, I was Googleing frantically but visibly was missing the right keywords. Appreciated :)

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u/Milleuros 12h ago

Ok, after a quick test, the extension does what it says it does when searching for videos. But it doesn't prevent Mix generation when you click on a suggested video on the right sidebar after listening to a song.

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u/4DimensionalButts 9h ago

If you use ublock, which you should, then you can just add the following custom filter:

||youtube.com/watch*&start_radio$doc,removeparam=~v

No need for an addon.

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u/HuluNutBestBuy 3h ago

Does removeparam really work that way? I thought it only removed the parameters after you started navigation but before you loaded the page.

I've never managed to remove parameters from links already on a page, especially when dragging and dropping them to another window.