Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations

#1

Post by tandav » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 7:50 PM UTC

Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations
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Re: Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations

#2

Post by marcodiego » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 8:16 PM UTC

Better: don't use youtube. Or, if you need, use a better interface like ytdl, newpipe or minitube.

Re: Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations

#3

Post by tandav » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 8:22 PM UTC

I use it for 3 months and never wanted to turn it off. I only use subscriptions and direct links and rarely trending. It's easier than I thought before.

Re: Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations

#4

Post by gruez » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 8:26 PM UTC

Why not just publish as an adblock filter list? You really only need cosmetic filtering to do this (supported by adblock filters), and I don't want to worry about yet another extension going rogue and selling to some a shady company.

Re: Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations

#5

Post by deadalus » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 8:29 PM UTC

Tried it, works flawlessly.

Another recommended Youtube extension is : De-Mainstream YouTube [0]

[0] : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/de-mainstream-yout...

Re: Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations

#6

Post by penjelly » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 8:30 PM UTC

you can use cssbot for stuff like this too. ive always done that instead

Re: Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations

#7

Post by debesyla » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 8:31 PM UTC

Hiding distractions? Sure. But I personally find YouTube recommendations quite good - if you don't ruin it by accidentally watching a single meme.

It's not perfect, but what would be a good alternative for finding new channels that you would like? Do y'all have any suggestions?

Re: Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations

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Post by ___luigi » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 8:33 PM UTC

debesyla wrote: post #7

Hiding distractions? Sure. But I personally find YouTube recommendations quite good - if you don't ruin it by accidentally watching a single meme. It's not perfect, but what would be a good alternative for finding new channels that you would like? Do y'all have any suggestions?

> YouTube recommendations quite good

I feel it suffers from "rich is getting richer" phenomena. Once the video start trending, the recommender starts showing it for any search.

Re: Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations

#9

Post by kbenson » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 8:34 PM UTC

Honestly, that's where I get some of the most use out of YouTube, the recommended videos main page. Sometimes I'm annoyed they aren't showing me enough variation based on my subscriptions and past likes. I'm not sure why I'd want this.

Sometimes I'm watching a technical presentation/talk by someone and I'll get other talks of theirs on the recommended videos for that video page, which is useful, or followup videos on a topic.

What reasons for people that find this useful have to not wanting recommendations, either as a space to go to specifically to find something to watch or the section on the video page?

Re: Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations

#10

Post by jcuenod » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 8:35 PM UTC

I've been using adblock to block comments and recommendations for quite a while. Now when I see them, I find them quite aggravating.