Comment on YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube

MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• daylong_seismic@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Freetube has profiles for that. I use it to group channels which post longer video essays

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  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That doesn’t let you log in with a Google account though does it? YouTube is my primary source of entertainment and I mostly watch it on tv nowadays and across other devices, I can’t go with an option with a “local” account.

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• Caitlyynn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Grayjay has subscription groups, which would be what you’re describing. Grayjay desktop is currently in alpha tho

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  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Does that allow your watch history and other stuff to get stored back on your Google account though?

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    • Caitlyynn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can toggle that

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      • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh I’ll have a look into it then, thanks, at a quick glance it didn’t look like a thing that was possible and it was just imports to a local account

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• emb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes, seems like such an odd oversight from Google. They want you to subscribe to channels, but after even moderate use over a few years, you end up with a massive list of subscriptions. I guess it’s not actually an oversight, the bad UX (for finding specific content) is probably on purpose, they want to funnel you through their suggestions. But still, surprised they don’t include a way to organize it.

  I use an extension called PocketTube to organize them – but it stores data locally and doesn’t sync very well, so it wouldn’t fit your use case.

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  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They removed it so they could make standard users reliant on the recommended feed so they’re more likely to watch high earning ad-backed videos.

    But I’m stuck of how short sighted their recommended algorithm is, it only takes into account the very recent videos you’ve watched so over time you get out of touch of old subscriptions unless they somehow go viral again or you search them up explicitly.

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