• Maiq@lemy.lol
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    13 days ago

    I think Id have to say youtube. That shitty site just keeps getting shittier and just when you think they cant fuck things up more than they have they set new standards of shitty shitfullness.

    There was once a day long ago when the next video in que was remotely relevant to your query or previously played video. Now you could be watching a documentary and two videos later they are shoveling some completely irrelevant shit at you.

    Then they started vpn blocking. 95℅ of the time I cant even play a video. Or it plays for a minute then errors out with “something went wrong”.

    For years yt-dlp saved my ass when I needed a video. Now works about 10% of the time.

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      13 days ago

      Curate your watch history!

      My YT feed is basically 80% I like, if I watch a video outside of my normal interests, I’ll get rid of it from my watch history.

      My feed is very focused on infrastructure, computers, weird history videos and stuff like that.

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        12 days ago

        I don’t sign in. Haven’t had an account for the better part of 10 years.

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          12 days ago

          Then you ate missing out on the best tool for managing your youtube feed

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              12 days ago

              Ok, to my mind I feel it is more important to have the tools to shape my feed clean than to keep my watch history private.

              But I can see the arguments for both sides, do you know if there are other frontends to youtube that you could use instead on the standard?

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                12 days ago

                Yes I have given a few a try. The most reliable this far I have found are freetube and newPipe for android. Both break pretty frequently though.

                I’ve pretty much given up on youtube.

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        13 days ago

        While they were younger the kids only had access to YouTube on the main TV. You can’t underestimate the need to review and prune the watch history to keep it on track.

        Interestingly I’ve noticed the recommendations tend to change depending on the time of day with more stuff appearing that grabs the whole families interest in the evenings when we are likely watching together or with one of the adults in charge of the remote.

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      13 days ago

      Have you tried yout.com? Take the URL of any vid, and just delete the ‘ube’ from it. It only allows a few DLs per day but it works.