• can@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I feel like this might be blasphemous around here, but I actually like being logged in and getting tailored algorithmic suggestions on YouTube. Unlike most people it seems to know my interests pretty well.

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      1 year ago

      I’m with you on this one. Although it seems like a slippery slope, I’d like to see some of the alternatives give you the same sort of algorithm (on an opt-in basis of course)

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      1 year ago

      Same. I really like my newpipe, but the sheer amount of unfiltered fuckface influencer bullshit videos ‘currently trending’ on it’s frontpage is more disgusting than any algorithmic youtube bubble will ever be.

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        These frontends need to introduce a preferred-startpage feature that enables setting Subscriptions as the default. I’d be interested to know from others if there’s any technical hurdle, because I’m surprised it’s not already available.

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      1 year ago

      I had one warhammer video autoplay and now all of my recomendations and autoplayed videos are warhammer videos. I have no interest in warhammer.

      • oyenyaaow@lemmy.zip
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        1 year ago

        you can go onto your youtube history, search for that video and remove it from your history, and it will stop influencing your recommendations.

        every now and then i watch a video about a topic i’m not really interested in except for that one video, and then had to remove it from history.

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          1 year ago

          It doesn’t do that for me, it’ll sprinkle related videos in my suggestions but overwhelmingly my suggestions stay similar to what I had before and I just scroll past the videos I am not interested in much and marking uninterested on anything which I’ll never watch

      • can@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I have autopay disabled which probably helps. I also use YouTube too much so it quickly picks up when I never tap a video of a certain topic.

    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Most Invidious instances allow you to sign up for an account on the instance to subscribe to people and track your history. Alternatively, I use the FreeTube app on computers I control for “watching TV”. It can track and transfer your subscriptions and history locally if you choose to use those features.

      I still get recommended videos next to watched ones from both services. For those who see that as a negative, I think FreeTube allows you to hide any YouTube elements you don’t want to see.

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        1 year ago

        Oh? Maybe I’ll look into it then. I’ve found some of my favourite channels from suggestion in my feed.