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Ask HN: Is there a way to hack YouTube landing page to see only certain topics?

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Re: Ask HN: Is there a way to hack YouTube landing page to see only certain topics?

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Post by 1oooqooq »

it's intentional impossible by their design. they need to mix content because they only have so much advertisers for your profile on each topic, so you must move around as they don't get paid for many displays.

but you shouldn't be using their clients anyway.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a way to hack YouTube landing page to see only certain topics?

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Post by pighive »

1oooqooq wrote: post #2

it's intentional impossible by their design. they need to mix content because they only have so much advertisers for your profile on each topic, so you must move around as they don't get paid for many displays. but you shouldn't be using their clients anyway.

Interesting. What are the alternative clients you recommend or use?

Edit: found this repo on github, never knew something like this existed. https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

Re: Ask HN: Is there a way to hack YouTube landing page to see only certain topics?

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Post by shivc »

One way that works moderately well is to mark certain topics as not interested when they are presented and like and watch the other topics for a longer time.

I've used the above to keep my YT landing page relatively clear of things I'm not interested in.

Once in a while it will suggest you a highly popular or interesting off topic item, but yea that is once in a while.

Basically what I'm saying is that we need to train their algorithm to our tastes through watching and marking things as not interested, don't show me this channel etc.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a way to hack YouTube landing page to see only certain topics?

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Post by pighive »

shivc wrote: post #4

One way that works moderately well is to mark certain topics as not interested when they are presented and like and watch the other topics for a longer time. I've used the above to keep my YT landing page relatively clear of things I'm not interested in. Once in a while it will suggest you a highly popular or interesting off topic item, but yea that is once in a while. Basically what I'm saying is that we need to tra…

I do this time to time; but I also watch a lot of nonsense on the same account. Wish there were more controls to premium account.
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