Friday, February 20, 2015

Declutter YouTube

One of our colleagues was searching YouTube for resources on puberty recently. While she found excellent resources available, you might already imagine the detritus, advertisements, and related video links surrounding the main video. Some of it unsavory, and all of it blinking, flashing, and screaming for attention. You have probably been there, and might imagine her dismay. Her predicament reminded me of several tools that truly excel at cleaning up YouTube and removing its distractions. My personal favorite is SafeShare.TV. SafeShare.TV is easy to use, and it works well. Simply paste a YouTube video link into its web form, click the green button, and let it generate a safe view link. Clicking the safe view link will play your video, sans YouTube mess. SafeShare.TV has additional options for starting and stopping videos at specific times, too. Also, you can bookmark your safe view links so that you do not have to make a safe link every time you want to watch the video.




One thing that bothers me about SafeShare.TV is the link to download the video as an audo mp3 or as a video mp4. The link takes viewers to a spam laden page which requires Java to work. I am highly suspicious and will avoid it. I recommend you avoid it, too.

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