Youtube > Profile picture > Settings > Add or manage your channel(s) > create a channel
You basically get a new “profile” with your own subs, history, profile picture, and comments
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TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I wish there was a feature like this on YouTube. I’d love a profile for watching educational videos, a profile for feeding me cool videos when I’m high, and a profile for when my kids want to watch stuff. I’m tired of vibing and listening to music videos only to get hit with Disney songs.
It’s insane that they have an incognito mode that still serves up ads even though I have premium.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
Pika@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
ooo I might look into this.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
fyi; if you have youtube tv, only the main google account will work on that. you’d need a family account for multiple profiles on youtube tv.
TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Holy crap that’s exactly what I was looking for, thank you!!
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
no problem! i use it for my regular account, one for gaming, and one for dumb memes and tv clips so they don’t get mixed up in recs :)
Pika@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
I agree, I would love seperate “recommendation profiles” so like if I am in the mood for music, swap to music, if I want education, I can swap to that, feeling lets play? swap to gaming, horror could be creepypasta or horror games.
All under the same parent account so the premium status could apply while google would still be able to leech data off the main profile, the only difference is the curated content given is based off the profile.
TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I had no idea until I read Katy’s comment, it’s a game changer
echodot@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
They do have categories and I’ve tried to put different channels in different categories, but the thing is just so hard to use I gave up.
It’s quite surprising how bad Google can be at UX.
TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
It really is insane how a company can be so massive yet unable to do basic UI. I got a notification that someone replied to a YouTube comment I made so I clicked the notification and it opened up YouTube’s landing page. I tried to find notifications and couldn’t so instead I tried to find a page that has my comment history.
I had to look it up and apparently you can’t even find it on YouTube, you have to go to a separate website, my activity.google.com.
nameisnotimportant@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Did you try to achieve this with containerized tabs?
SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
You can create different accounts under different email addresses.
Once you’re logged in, you can switch between accounts from the dropdown menu.
I’ve done this in the past to separate French YouTube recs from English ones.
TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I did this as well but the other accounts get ads because the premium only applies to my first account. Terrible user experience and Google go hand in hand
scytale@piefed.zip 16 hours ago
In my anecdotal experience on my tv, the algorithm bleeds through accounts as well. Like a video that is more related to the content on one account is recommended on the other.