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ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• scarrtt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I leave it on, the suggestions are good as far as I can tell. What’s everyone’s beef with it?

  I don’t get the YouTube hate in general. It’s much more interesting than Netflix or TV so I’m happy to pay, although I pay Argentina rates courtesy of subscribing while connected to my VPN and I use Sponsor Block to skip the in-video ad reads. It still counts

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  • mabd@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, I'm all for privacy, but I actually get interesting things recommended by YouTube. If I turn this off won't I just get random YouTube videos? No thanks. I also do use my watch history for "I watched it the other day, what was that video called again?"

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    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Every time I set up a new computer, and before I log into Youtube and see my own recommendations, I look at the raw front page and am shocked that people find all that bullshit entertaining.

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      • ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I recently started a new google account and was actually disturbed by the absolute shit on the raw front page.

        I actually tried to watch some of the videos to get an inkling of what is supposed to be appealing and I just couldn’t. It was sooooo bad.

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      • scarrtt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Exactly, it’s total garbage. I’ve been training the algo for years, no way I’m giving that up

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    • lunicoDee@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For me the thing that holds me back from using an alternative frontend is that the yt algoritm doesnt work on those. The thing that i nate is that it doesnt recommend the channels wich I’m subscibed to most of the times. Aldo, on my FreeBSD-based mobile operanting system, there arent frontend wrappers so I’m left with the proprietary app which is included in the package store

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  • sharkfucker420@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I want to watch less YouTube so I leave recommendations off

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• MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I disabled my Google and YouTube’s history settings since 2019.

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  • sic_1@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Some video suggestions let me suspect that this only disables me being able to see my history though.

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    • 8rhn6t6s@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I feel this too. When i listen to a song on one device then it gets recommended on another even with history off was kind of sus

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      • MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well, this is the point of “removing” tailored suggestions on YT’s homepage.

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• Prandom_returns@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s a firefox plugin that redirects you to your subscriptions’ uploads instead of that nonsense that “Home” was. Highly recommend.

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