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• deathmetal27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Here’s a non exhaustive list of things I’ve blocked:

  • The pill strip on top with a list of video topics (don’t know what the official term is.)
  • YouTube shorts suggestions.
  • Ads that are injected into the suggestions.
  • “Shorts remixing this video” section in the video descriptions.

  I’ll perhaps share my ublock filter list for YouTube later.

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  • Raploc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks! I’m going to try these.

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for the list, I’ll be trying these!

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The pill strip on top with a list of video topics

    There’s one reason not to block this: all the way on the right of that list is a “new to you” feed button, which is pretty neat to try sometimes.

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    • deathmetal27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Could you share the URL of that link? IMO, there should be a better way of presenting that than on the pill bar on the top.

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      • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Unfortunately there’s no URL to go with that feature, it must be JS-activated. Same goes for the Recently Uploaded and Watched tabs which are new in that same vein.

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