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If you find anything interesting in there, it means Google is successfully tracking you across the web to know your habits. Try from a fresh browser/computer an

If you find anything interesting in there, it means Google is successfully tracking you across the web to know your habits. Try from a fresh browser/computer and you'll see all recommendations are commercial trash-vertisement with no human/scientific/political interest. Some of these suggested videos may be fun to watch but Youtube has become really bad over the years to discover interesting, not well-known content. Now they're trying to maximize ad revenue, and the recommended videos have suffered as a consequence, only pushing top-popularity content pushed by "content creation industry" with very little quality.

phailhaus 5y ago
> Try from a fresh browser/computer and you'll see all recommendations are commercial trash-vertisement with no human/scientific/political interest. ...so they're not interesting to you. I see several news and music-related videos that I might watch. Like I said, YouTube presents you with a set of videos you may be interested in, and even if you're not, it also gives you tools for finding videos yourself (e.g., through tags & categories). The moment you start watching videos, it starts refining recommendations and funneling you towards more content. By contrast, PeerTube's homepage is pretty bare. I don't even know what the interface would look like if I did sign up.