Freetube[0] is my recommendation if you're looking for this. It has the feature built-in, alongside a whole suite of distraction-minimizing features. It might not be the definitive YouTube client yet, but it definitely gets enough right to become my daily carry.
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#42I honestly just wish the recommendations were better . I watched an interview that Curtis Yarvin gave on Tucker Carlson (about an hour long...interesting at least). Now youtube is sending me all these conservative "talk show" people that I have absolutely 0 interest in. Same thing: I think I watched some video about guns a while ago. I think guns are neat, but I absolutely do not care about watching dozens of videos…
I was looking to buy a leather belt about 6 months ago. I found the belt and bought it (am very happy, thank you). Now it appears for the rest of my life I will be getting leather belt advertisements. On Facebook, Youtube, Google, everywhere. The whole reason why I wanted a quality belt was so that it would last me the rest of my life if cared for properly. I intend to never buy another. And what's worse is that it's…
For what its worth, this is more because none of those advertisers (except maybe the one whose belt you actually bought) know you actually finished and bought a belt!
Everyone who wants people to buy their leather belts advertises to people who have searched or previously looked for "leather belts" and that is you...
In a perverse way, it's actually good for you to keep getting belt ads. If you just stopped getting them all of a sudden I'd get worried because it means the purchase data of belts was sold and combined with your past search data to server you new ads in an even more devious way.
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#43I honestly just wish the recommendations were better . I watched an interview that Curtis Yarvin gave on Tucker Carlson (about an hour long...interesting at least). Now youtube is sending me all these conservative "talk show" people that I have absolutely 0 interest in. Same thing: I think I watched some video about guns a while ago. I think guns are neat, but I absolutely do not care about watching dozens of videos…
I really like the new containers feature in firefox for this- I have a trash container so my main youtube container doesn't get polluted.
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#44I honestly just wish the recommendations were better . I watched an interview that Curtis Yarvin gave on Tucker Carlson (about an hour long...interesting at least). Now youtube is sending me all these conservative "talk show" people that I have absolutely 0 interest in. Same thing: I think I watched some video about guns a while ago. I think guns are neat, but I absolutely do not care about watching dozens of videos…
> I honestly just wish the recommendations were better. Which is sad considering how great youtube recommendations used to be around the time Stripe was launched. Remember when people used to go down the youtube rabbit hole to see where they'd end up? Now there is no breadth nor depth to the recommendations. Youtube used to be a vast ocean, now it's a puddle ankle deep and no more than a step wide.
Like the rest of the Web, there's still a lot there—Google just won't help you find it.
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#45Does anyone have a ublock origin filter they use to block YouTube recommendations and/or comments?
This is what I use:
youtube.com##.ytp-suggestions
youtube.com##.ytp-pause-overlay
youtube.com##.videowall-endscreen
youtube.com###related
youtube.com##ytd-commentsRe: Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations
#46I made one of these, that works for YouTube, Twitter, Tumbler, Reddit, Hacker News, Google Search, and Pinterest
You can enable/disable whatever you want. The point is to get rid of lame content.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sober-media/hfjclo...
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was looking to buy a leather belt about 6 months ago. I found the belt and bought it (am very happy, thank you). Now it appears for the rest of my life I will be getting leather belt advertisements. On Facebook, Youtube, Google, everywhere. The whole reason why I wanted a quality belt was so that it would last me the rest of my life if cared for properly. I intend to never buy another. And what's worse is that it's…
For what its worth, this is more because none of those advertisers (except maybe the one whose belt you actually bought) know you actually finished and bought a belt! Everyone who wants people to buy their leather belts advertises to people who have searched or previously looked for "leather belts" and that is you... In a perverse way, it's actually good for you to keep getting belt ads. If you just stopped getting t…
Yes, I know the cause, but I'm pointing out a flaw in their plan.
It would be smarter to look for pools of products and be less targetted. E.g. to know that people who buy long lived leather belts may also be interested in long-lived leather wallets, or long-lived shirts, or glass containers instead of plastic, etc, and then rotate all these products in, rather than this targetted barrage of non-stop belt ads for the next year. This just can't be the optimal advertising strategy, there must be diminishing returns to this level of specificity.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was looking to buy a leather belt about 6 months ago. I found the belt and bought it (am very happy, thank you). Now it appears for the rest of my life I will be getting leather belt advertisements. On Facebook, Youtube, Google, everywhere. The whole reason why I wanted a quality belt was so that it would last me the rest of my life if cared for properly. I intend to never buy another. And what's worse is that it's…
For what its worth, this is more because none of those advertisers (except maybe the one whose belt you actually bought) know you actually finished and bought a belt! Everyone who wants people to buy their leather belts advertises to people who have searched or previously looked for "leather belts" and that is you... In a perverse way, it's actually good for you to keep getting belt ads. If you just stopped getting t…
Alternatively, the Faustian bargin we made with the FAANGs was that we would provide our data and they would give us useful ads.
If I bought a nice leather belt, perhaps I should get ads for nicer leather shoes or some other item, maybe a leather polish/waterproofing kit to keep my belt nice and new. The failure of the Advertising-Industrial complex in that regard has been disappointing to say the least.
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#49I honestly just wish the recommendations were better . I watched an interview that Curtis Yarvin gave on Tucker Carlson (about an hour long...interesting at least). Now youtube is sending me all these conservative "talk show" people that I have absolutely 0 interest in. Same thing: I think I watched some video about guns a while ago. I think guns are neat, but I absolutely do not care about watching dozens of videos…
It surprises me how many people aren't being proactive about their recommendations. Hover your mouse over a recommendation you don't like, click the three dots that appear to the right of the title, click "Not interested". Results change very quickly.
When you aren't on youtube much it can be exasperating to manage this in this way. For example, I was watching a biology lecture on youtube. Recommendation tends to be insane conspiracy theories that include some words from the biology lecture title, and zero other high quality biology lectures. I'm not going to sit there and hover my mouse over literally every recommendation when they are all insane. I will just continue to not use youtube much, so far I haven't felt like I've been missing out.
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#50I honestly just wish the recommendations were better . I watched an interview that Curtis Yarvin gave on Tucker Carlson (about an hour long...interesting at least). Now youtube is sending me all these conservative "talk show" people that I have absolutely 0 interest in. Same thing: I think I watched some video about guns a while ago. I think guns are neat, but I absolutely do not care about watching dozens of videos…
You have to work on them a little bit but once you do, the recommendations are incredibly high quality.
Just make sure to hide the stuff you don’t want to see on your homepage. I go as far as removing dumb videos from my watch history (or watching them in incognito in the first place).
I find that most people who complain about the YouTube algorithm expect it to just work out of the box with zero tuning. It’s not that good and to be honest I personally don’t want it to be that good. But if you put in a LITTLE effort I promise you it’s an absolute recommendation beast. I have hundreds of hours of content in my watch later list just because of it. It’s all super high quality and I’m rarely disappointed hitting random videos in my homepage.