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I feel like I have a unique one here. The chrome extension: "Replace Youtube's Home with Subscriptions" It has easily saved me over 100 hours by preventing me

I feel like I have a unique one here. The chrome extension: "Replace Youtube's Home with Subscriptions" It has easily saved me over 100 hours by preventing me from continuously scrolling through youtube recommendations. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/replace-youtubes-home-wit/nfffnooajndeeejgejfkbphjocpkblog?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/replace-youtubes-h...

mtwshngtn 4y ago
can you not just click 'subscriptions' in the left sidebar on the homepage? Or direct?: https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions
- joshmlewis 4y ago
  The extension redirects the home path to the subscriptions path so that is what it's doing, just automatically.
- xz18r 4y ago
  I have that link bookmarked as my "YouTube bookmark". I have never since visited the homepage. Don't really understand what the fuss is about.
- KiranRao0 4y ago
  The time saved is not the time required to click 'subscriptions'. The time saved is the time not spent mindlessly scrolling through endless recommendations designed to keep me hooked.
DavidPiper 4y ago
Thank you for saving me 100 hours in 2023. Installing for Firefox right now.
punkspider 4y ago
I use Pocket Tube [1] and I absolutely love it. I started using it 1 month ago so can't really estimate how much time it's saved me. Before that I always found YT frustrating and never cared about subscriptions because, and correct me if I'm wrong, the subscription system is disorganized. It doesn't make sense to me. I found myself having a hundred subscriptions that I didn't know how to follow in an organized manner. With this extension now I've organized subscriptions into groups, which get integrated into the UI in the sidebar, and you can set notifications for whichever group you'd like. It has more features - like the "Deck" feature, where you add a few columns of either playlists/groups/channels. You can also view all the latest vids from each subscription group, or all your subscriptions and filter them by groups. I'm quite happy that I suddenly noticed I had this pain point and quickly found the perfect solution. It's one of my favorite extensions. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pockettube-youtube-subscr/kdmnjgijlmjgmimahnillepgcgeemffb
dysoco 4y ago
Funny that for me it works exactly the opposite; I'm subscribed to a lot of channels that upload many videos that don't interest me, however youtube's algorithm is pretty spot-on with videos that I will be very interested in watching, whether they come from channels I'm subscribed to, or not.
- KiranRao0 4y ago
  You're describing the advantage and disadvantage of the YouTube recommendation algorithm. It's really effective at recommending videos I'd be interested in/would click on. However it's so good that it'll easily burn hours of my time I'd otherwise spend doing something more fulfilling.
PikachuEXE 4y ago
Or try out FreeTube https://freetubeapp.io https://freetubeapp.io

mtwshngtn 4y ago

can you not just click 'subscriptions' in the left sidebar on the homepage? Or direct?: https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

joshmlewis 4y ago
The extension redirects the home path to the subscriptions path so that is what it's doing, just automatically.
xz18r 4y ago
I have that link bookmarked as my "YouTube bookmark". I have never since visited the homepage. Don't really understand what the fuss is about.
KiranRao0 4y ago
The time saved is not the time required to click 'subscriptions'. The time saved is the time not spent mindlessly scrolling through endless recommendations designed to keep me hooked.

DavidPiper 4y ago

Thank you for saving me 100 hours in 2023. Installing for Firefox right now.

punkspider 4y ago

I use Pocket Tube [1] and I absolutely love it. I started using it 1 month ago so can't really estimate how much time it's saved me. Before that I always found YT frustrating and never cared about subscriptions because, and correct me if I'm wrong, the subscription system is disorganized. It doesn't make sense to me. I found myself having a hundred subscriptions that I didn't know how to follow in an organized manner. With this extension now I've organized subscriptions into groups, which get integrated into the UI in the sidebar, and you can set notifications for whichever group you'd like. It has more features - like the "Deck" feature, where you add a few columns of either playlists/groups/channels. You can also view all the latest vids from each subscription group, or all your subscriptions and filter them by groups. I'm quite happy that I suddenly noticed I had this pain point and quickly found the perfect solution. It's one of my favorite extensions. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pockettube-youtube-subscr/kdmnjgijlmjgmimahnillepgcgeemffb

dysoco 4y ago

Funny that for me it works exactly the opposite; I'm subscribed to a lot of channels that upload many videos that don't interest me, however youtube's algorithm is pretty spot-on with videos that I will be very interested in watching, whether they come from channels I'm subscribed to, or not.

KiranRao0 4y ago
You're describing the advantage and disadvantage of the YouTube recommendation algorithm. It's really effective at recommending videos I'd be interested in/would click on. However it's so good that it'll easily burn hours of my time I'd otherwise spend doing something more fulfilling.

PikachuEXE 4y ago

Or try out FreeTube https://freetubeapp.io https://freetubeapp.io