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> YouTube: search interface cleanups Ah, finally someone has done it. YouTube search without the 'For you' and 'from your history' guff.
by HeckFeck 3y ago
> YouTube: search interface cleanups
Ah, finally someone has done it. YouTube search without the 'For you' and 'from your history' guff.
- vidyesh 3y agoI have disabled YouTube Watch history and I really enjoy seeing YouTube struggle to provide me anything meaningful in the Home feed. Most suggestions are just based on my subscriptions and I see a lot of repeated suggestions as it doesn't know what I have watched. This keeps me away from the echo chamber that it creates for most people.
- mharig 3y ago*This keeps me in the cozy echo chamber of my subscriptions. Fixed it for you.
- vidyesh 3y agoAn echo chamber propagates the same idea through various channels making it look like the echo chamber is the only truth. My subscriptions stay limited, no every creator creates the same video again and again, once I watch a video I am not going to rewatch it and get another new idea which solidifies the idea. So I would argue that it isn't creating an echo chamber.
- 2Gkashmiri 3y agoWhy do you use YouTube while signed in ? All the past 12-14 years I've used YouTube, it was always in a private window. With or without login. Earlier I had an account but when google signup was mandated, I quit and since then I just manually go and search for stuff. I have newpipe and libretube on my phone so I have some semblance of "subscriptions and channels" but not much.
- HeckFeck 3y agoToo much fun in the comments =) I agree that newpipe is excellent, it's a wonder they still keep it going.