I see it on mine! 
Yeah, I use 3 add-ons to clear out many unwanted youtube stuff. And I do use the YT web interface. Because I’m not big on how they track me or whatever. There are many other ways we get end up in a database with a number assigned. Basically, I’m not an extremist.
The people are on YT because that is the biggest platform and they are making money out of it. Most creators love doing what they do and some of them do work (smaller creators). And the people who invested time in making enough money don’t want to drop everything and move to another platform.
But there are some who are on other platforms but those platforms are not as big as YT. I’m pretty sure all of them will move if they have another platform as big as YT.
Anyways high CPU usage might be because of the browser not handling the YT player correctly. Other sites use different players and most of them are better than YT player.
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What’s that stuff coming out the arm pit?
In case of Bender - definitely booze 
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In my web-browsers I use Invidious instead of Youtube on older machines. It is generally much less bloated and all of Google’s privacy-invading and resource-hungry Java-Scripts are disabled there (stripped from Invidious’ Web-UIs, FOSS).
—> Keeps your older machines from over-heating due to Google’s JS-bloat. 
Just pick a mirror that suits your locality and go Google-free…
Apart from that, there are quite a few nice apps around on Arch Linux to watch or listen to YT, such as pipe-viewer which flawlessly and easily works with mpv from a terminal. (One of my all-time favorite YT solutions!)
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I was looking too for a way to see youtube videos without the web browser,
which one do you prefer? MPV?
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You can use whatever player you want. If you like MPV (and MPV is really great) you can use MPV.
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I’ve tried no player yet
before trying one I was asking for your preferences 
Personally, I like SMPlayer. MPV would be my second choice.
(just be warned, SMPlayer is really ugly when you install it, it needs smplayer-themes and smplayer-skins packages to look decent)
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Yeah its already disabled…
This one is interesting…thank you i will try it
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This does not tell you which decoder is used, play a youtube video and press ctrl+shift+i , and look for “media”.
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chromium#Tips_and_tricks
…to get it working on my old intel ivy-bridge, I had to - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2080054#p2080054 rebuild libva
Since some time I had to disable (#)
--use-gl=desktop
on amd and intel igpu to get “vaapi true” in chromium (probably the same in brave).
…my flags:
--ignore-gpu-blocklist
--enable-gpu-rasterization
--enable-zero-copy
--disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds
--enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers
--enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder,VaapiVideoEncoder,CanvasOopRasterization,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks,RawDraw
#--use-gl=desktop
--disable-features=UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder
--use-vulkan
Graphics Feature Status
Canvas: Hardware accelerated
Canvas out-of-process rasterization: Enabled
Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled
Compositing: Hardware accelerated
Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
OpenGL: Enabled
Rasterization: Hardware accelerated on all pages
Raw Draw: Enabled
Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
Video Encode: Hardware accelerated
Vulkan: Enabled
WebGL: Hardware accelerated
WebGL2: Hardware accelerated
WebGPU: Disabled
Edit:
Also a very convenient method is play-with-mpv .
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I will surely check this out…thank you
What about Firefox? Same problem?
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i dont use firefox
Can you tell how did you enavle these flags…what is the optimum cpu usage while playing videos at 720p…like mine is about 50 percent
…to help you, you have to help us
show output of
inxi -Fazy
your flags
chrome://flags/
your Brave launch command
brave --HereAreMyFlags
spec
ystem:
Kernel: 6.2.2-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux
root=UUID=56172e9c-61a1-4a1b-b02c-980ec2625676 rw quiet splash loglevel=3
udev.log_level=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
Desktop: i3 v: 4.22 info: polybar vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Archcraft
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire A315-22 v: V1.09
serial: Chassis: type: 10 serial:
Mobo: SR model: Rose_SR v: V1.09 serial: UEFI: Phoenix
v: 1.09 date: 05/15/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 14.4 Wh (62.1%) condition: 23.2/25.1 Wh (92.4%)
volts: 11.1 min: 11.4 model: LGC AC14B18J type: Li-ion serial:
status: discharging cycles: 2
CPU:
Info: model: AMD A4-9120e RADEON R3 4 COMPUTE CORES 2C+2G bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Excavator level: v3 note: check built: 2015 process: GF 28nm
family: 0x15 (21) model-id: 0x70 (112) stepping: 0 microcode: 0x6006705
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 smt: cache: L1: 192 KiB
desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x64 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 2x1024 KiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1100 min/max: 1100/1500 boost: enabled scaling:
driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1100 2: 1100
bogomips: 5991
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT disabled
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, STIBP:
disabled, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Stoney [Radeon R2/R3/R4/R5 Graphics]
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-3
code: Volcanic Islands process: TSMC 28nm built: 2014-19 ports:
active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:01.0 chip-ID: 1002:98e4
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Quanta VGA WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-4:3
chip-ID: 0408:a031 class-ID: 0e02 serial:
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.8
compositor: Picom v: git-c4107 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP model: BOE Display 0x07cb built: 2018
res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6")
diag: 394mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (stoney LLVM
15.0.7 DRM 3.49 6.2.2-arch1-1) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:01.1 chip-ID: 1002:15b3 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Family 15h Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:09.2 chip-ID: 1022:157a
class-ID: 0403
Sound API: ALSA v: k6.2.2-arch1-1 running: yes
Sound Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.66 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 1000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp1s0 state: down mac:
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Lite-On driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel modules: wl pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0042 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: up mac:
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Lite-On Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb
v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-1.1:3 chip-ID: 04ca:3015 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.03 TiB used: 8.11 GiB (0.8%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Gigabyte model: GP-GSM2NE3128GNTD
size: 119.24 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: rev: EDFMB0.5 temp: 31.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: rev: ACM2 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 118.74 GiB size: 116.32 GiB (97.96%) used: 8.11 GiB (7.0%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%)
used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 43.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 43.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 169 Uptime: 5m wakeups: 1 Memory: 7.17 GiB used: 1.19 GiB (16.6%)
Init: systemd v: 253 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 12.2.1 Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1009 libs: 235 tools: yay Shell: Zsh
v: 5.9 running-in: alacritty inxi: 3.3.25
Please edit your post for better readability. ( </> …this is the magic sign).
What about the rest ?
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