Ha! I made this mistake when looking for a morning joe video to use to make fun of my hardcore right wing friend. Now all I see is those shit heads on my algo.
not using dark mode in current year
You deserve this
Use Freetube, it’s a FOSS desktop application where you can import your subs and playlists
Best selling point is how the homepage is the most recent videos by your subscriptions in order, from most to least recent
I honestly prefer it to youtube in every way
Trying it on my phone,thanks for the push.
Fuck big tech. They will keep enshittifying everything unless they are kept afraid all users might leave.
Nice recommendation, thanks. I’m starting to push away from all these US big tech companies (hence why I’m here in Lemmy) and finding an alternative to YouTube was hard to find. I just hope they don’t get into the same troubles as Vanced.
I’ve been using it for about a year now and I honestly have nothing but praise for it
Because it uses invidious as a backend for video sources, freetube can have similar problems to it (might have a day without access to yt vids), but that’s only happened twice in the past year that I can remember
If I ever watch one Mr. Bean YouTube video, all my suggestions become Mr. Bean. I mean he’s ok but they literally have the same video uploaded to multiple channels with slightly different names.
Give me more different Mr. Bean. Stop repeating the Bean.
Unfortunately there’s only like, 10 Mr. Bean episodes. Not much “more different” to go off of there.
That realisation was what made me doubt all of my childhood memories.
Kid me was sure there was at least 50 episodes of an hour each. Nope. Only 14. All less than half an hour long.
Rowan Atkinson’s been in a lot of other stuff, for example Blackadder (multiple series). He’s also played Mr Bean in lots of movies.
A childhood favourite of mine, The Witches, featured Rowan Atkinson as the hotel manager. Apparently during filming (which took place in a real hotel, not a sound stage) Rowan was in his room when the crew noticed water pouring out from under his door. They opened the door and found him sleeping in bed with the water running! The sets outside were flooded and a bunch of equipment was damaged by water!
This is there first time I am learning about this and I am also finding it difficult to accept
youtube algo is such a piece of shit.
Watch lets plays and tech channels, every day, for months.
Accidentally watch 30 seconds of a right wing psychopaths video because they buried the lede with the video title, and all youtube wants to show me for 2 weeks is right wing extremist bullshit, and takes months to get back into getting suggested the shit i normally watch on the daily.
I hate how pro right wing YouTube is. Half the time I make an anti-Trump comment, it gets censored. But plenty of pro-MAGA comments get through constantly.
I can tell that I’m getting censored because my comments simply won’t be there when I go back to the same video from a different account. But it’ll show up in my comment history with a “some comments might not be visible yet” disclaimer at the top. Sometimes if I keep reposting the comment it’ll eventually go through, but by then the video has stopped being promoted by the algorithm and so no one sees it. This only happens to me when I get political.
most websites like youtube/twitter/facebook/etc/etc are all heavily pro-right wing.
They’ve claimed in the past they don’t want to appear “biased” by cracking down on right wingers for rules violations. but honestly, it was obviously bullshit since they had no problem with “biased” appearances when cracking down on any other group, and often for far far far less than what right wingers routinely get away with.
Right wingers are where their bread is buttered. They buy more ads, they run less adblocking, and they click more ads.
the trick is to ignore your homepage and only browse your subscriptions page
you can use an extension to automatically redirect to your subscriptions page
Say his name and he appears! I believe in
Joe HendryBalatro!I don’t know who this Baletro guy is, but daaaaaaamn. He owns your youtube.
It’s John Balatro, he play his card well.
I’m am so strict about what I watch on my yt account. Anything that is just a one off for curiosity or that I think will destroy my front page gets opened in a private browser or 3rd party app.
Fwiw, you can delete videos from your viewing history to theoretically fix it.
I do this, but every now and then I still click on a video and then realise I shouldn’t have because my recommended feed is then flooded with videos about that specific topic. I’ll have to remember the watch history trick
I hope it helps!
Yeah i do this. I browse front page for any recommendation and if it’s a shitty clickbait or something from a search or lemmy that i don’t wanna get flooded with, i delete that video. Then it won’t recommend you that sort of video.
You gotta control the algorithm and make it works for you.
This! You can curate the algorithm to work for you!
This is the way to be. Any time I see someone else’s feed in YT I almost always cringe in horror at what they’re being force fed. Curate your algorithms folks!
Lol y is your watch history still on
Watch history is useful if you actively curate your algorithm feed. If you don’t engage with the tools the algorithm interacts with you can quickly end up with a free-for-all on your main page.
Oh it staight up disables the home page. Search > algo.
Don’t act like disabling Watch History stop Google from recording your watch history for internal purposes.
Just turn watch history off and find your own way. My YT homepage is blank. Fuck suggestion algorithms.
Yep subscribing is the way to go.
The algorithm is dumb. It will even recommend the same video you watched before if you let it…
It will even recommend the same video you watched before
That is why I started liking (or dis-liking) every single video I watch, if it has the thumbs up/down I certainly know I already watched it and move on…
With that said I don’t know if I am tweaking or making my algorithm dumber lmao.
Ive found using clients to watch helps. They are generally much more intelligent on the history side.
Does no one use the Subscription page anymore? Are people even aware of its existence at this point?
I used to utilize the subscription page. Then Google replaced YouTube accounts with Google accounts. I haven’t logged in since.
Yes, I’m old.
Do you want to link your account with Google+?
Ok, we’ll ask you again later.
I don’t subscribe to anything, but I’d prob use it if I did. I only go to YT for one-off videos and just search for what I need.
Bump. This is what I do too. So much easier to just avoid it entirely.
Log out, clear cookies, never log in again.
I have been watching YouTube basically since they started. Despite having over 1000 subscriptions and an ungodly amount of watch hours if I watch a SINGLE video that’s outside my usual wheelhouse my recommendation page will be tainted for like a week trying to get me to watch more of whateber thing I dared venture into.
I remember when I Ran by Flock of Seagulls was randomly playing in my head so I decided to listen to it. YouTube took that as me finding a new favourite band. I mostly listen to industrial metal.
Free autism diagnosis by the algorithm
Unironically the YT algorithm that pushed me into videos that eventually made me get diagnosed by a professional.
I totally feel you but for a different reason. I played Balatro for a few days and literally the only thing Steam recommended to me for over a month was just card based rogue-like games.
Also I recommend the one by RTGame. Probably my favorite streamer. He’s Irish so I never catch the streams but the YouTube videos are great.
Did you know they called him the Balatro King in the college?
