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Youtube is now unusable without a frontend (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by DanTDM@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I have an extension that can individually disable all the most useless/addicting components of the Youtube site, such as shorts and whatnot. On the search page, I have turned on:

hide Shorts

hide For You

hide Trending

hide 'People Also Searched For'

hide Search Categories

hide Promoted Videos

hide Promoted Websites

hide Suggested Products

Do you know what Youtube has started doing? They are now inserting engagement slop DIRECTLY into the search results, as seen in the image above. It's literally a short, yet it's inserted like a video so you're forced to see it. The only possible way to remove it is by using a privacy frontend, as even on incognito mode, Youtube will look at the three videos you've watched and start inserting shit based off that.

Louis Rossman is right, they all have rapist mentalities... "just let me stick it in"

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[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Cool music taste.

[-] Saltarello@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

My method for android & desktop. I never sign in to YouTube & never use the app. Using Joplin synced through Nextcloud (any syncable note taking app would do the trick) I keep a list of channels ("subscriptions") & interesting looking videos ("watch later") which I group by length. Obviously, this way the links can be via Piped, YouTube whatever.

I only ever interract through browser which is never signed in. Kiwi browser on Android, Firefox or Brave on desktop. All of them run uBlock + SponsorBlock + DeArrow.

DeArrow is by the same dev/s as SponsorBlock & gives anti clickbait crowd sourced titles & thumbs. Its become an invaluable tool so I'm glad to have paid to offer some support.

All of the browsers have history/cookies etc cleared once closed.

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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago

They are in a endless cycle

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Uh, yeah. Use , give search term, go to tab or corresponding functionality.

Why would you use youtube's internal search anyway? It's age-old knowledge that such platforms use algorithms to "engage" (manipulate) you.

[-] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

hold up... danTDM?

[-] bootinelli@lemmyis.fun 3 points 2 years ago

People here won't complain about anything until their favourite youtuber tells them why it's bad.

[-] cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't know anyone that watches YouTube regularly. Seems like such a boomer thing

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[-] MashedTech@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I use YouTube with https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/search-fixer-for-youtube/bojdknokkpgboeonegndfcgkaommhleo

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[-] Cistello@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure my Adblocker already does all of this I still use Youtube about 10% of the time to find new channels Piped provides some suggestions while you watch some Video but it can't replaces YT's homefeed

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