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And as I got on YouTube just now, the recommendations are just utter junk. It is a bunch of clickbait on things I don't even like and find annoying and repulsiv
by encryptluks2 5y ago
And as I got on YouTube just now, the recommendations are just utter junk. It is a bunch of clickbait on things I don't even like and find annoying and repulsive. This is why I use things like youtube-dl, NewPipe, etc.
- BuyMyBitcoins 5y agoI use uBlock Origin to hide every video on the recommendations panel except for what is about to be played next. It is surprisingly great.
- kikokikokiko 5y agoI use uBlock on a slightly different way. I set filters for specific channels or "channel networks", for instance if I don't want to see any Vice related video show up in my recomendations, i.e. "Vice Fightland", "Vice bla bla bla" etc, I set a rule such as: www.youtube.com###dismissible:has-text(/Vice/) This way, any channel that has the word Vice in it will never show up to me in recommendations, be it on the main page or the sidebar. This "has-text" regex is really useful, not just on Youtube. I use it a lot, all over the internet.
- foofoo4u 5y agoDo you know if https://freetubeapp.io/ https://freetubeapp.io/ is any better? I do most of my viewing on desktop.
- encryptluks2 5y agoI don't know but Minitube is an open source app similar to NewPipe for desktop.
- spiderice 5y ago> This is why I use things like youtube-dl, NewPipe, etc. Perhaps this is the reason the recommendations are junk? How can Youtube recommend you videos if you hide what you like from Youtube? I watch a lot of Youtube, signed in, on Youtube.com, and my recommendations are great.
- encryptluks2 5y agoI hide what I like from YouTube because their recommendations are junk. If they default recommendations are going to be more junk then I don't want them knowing what I watch as I can only assume that they promote what they are paid to.