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Youtube is now unusable without a frontend (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by DanTDM@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I have an extension that can individually disable all the most useless/addicting components of the Youtube site, such as shorts and whatnot. On the search page, I have turned on:

hide Shorts

hide For You

hide Trending

hide 'People Also Searched For'

hide Search Categories

hide Promoted Videos

hide Promoted Websites

hide Suggested Products

Do you know what Youtube has started doing? They are now inserting engagement slop DIRECTLY into the search results, as seen in the image above. It's literally a short, yet it's inserted like a video so you're forced to see it. The only possible way to remove it is by using a privacy frontend, as even on incognito mode, Youtube will look at the three videos you've watched and start inserting shit based off that.

Louis Rossman is right, they all have rapist mentalities... "just let me stick it in"

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I’m really surprised at how bad of an experience people are having! I have a bunch of channels I follow and people I interact with. Some big channels but most small. I love channels with only a few hundred to a few thousand viewers. The creators post their videos and then I talk to them through the comments. We have some really interesting conversations.

Lots of other channels I follow I don’t interact with but still really enjoy. A lot of hobby channels are amazing! I generally avoid the news and politics stuff, though I still occasionally watch Ukraine videos or Trump trial stuff. I get sick of those after one video though!

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[–] ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Great band though, you've got good taste

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[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Cool music taste.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

OK but what does that have to do with privacy?

[–] mukt@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They can't do what they are doing here without an intent to violate privacy.

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[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

hold up... danTDM?

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (12 children)

You guys still using youtube?

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

They are in a endless cycle

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