Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations • Hacker News Board

Re: Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations

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Post by progforlyfe » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:13 PM UTC

zeta0134 wrote: post #17

kbenson wrote: post #9

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…

I don't know how you're getting relevant recommendations; YouTube seems determined to get me into watching the latest celebrity personalities, or endless streams of clickbait. I use a few custom uBlock Origin rules to hide the recommendations sidebar and the end-of-video overlay complete. If a video doesn't show up in my list of curated subscriptions, I just don't see it, and that's fine. It's good for my feed to be…

Any time you see a related or recommended video that annoys you, you should click the three dots and choose "not interested"

Re: Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations

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Post by posed » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:26 PM UTC

Wow, I was just thinking a few days ago if there's a way to hide the recommendations, which most of the time is distractive and unproductive.

Re: Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations

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Post by hoppyhoppy2 » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:31 PM UTC

shmde wrote: post #21

There is another alternative which I use. Distraction Free (DF) Youtube. Works pretty well. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/df-tube-distractio... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/df-youtube/ There is another ad-on for youtube which I recently started using. It skips all the advertisement inside the video ( such as self promotion, product promotions, into/outro, sponsorships). https://chrome.go…

SponsorBlock is also available for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/

Re: Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations

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Post by rtkwe » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:57 PM UTC

hda2 wrote: post #86

rtkwe wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To do that you have to give up more information about what you actually bought which IMO is an even bigger privacy issue than what we're currently giving away.

I think it's reasonable for the ad industry to assume that you bought the belt once you abruptly stopped showing interest in comparing belts for a couple of days. No access to purchase history needed.

I'm not sure if they get that kind of historical data of your interests when they're bidding on ads though either.

Re: Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations

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Post by t0bia_s » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 8:56 PM UTC

I use this over year. My time consumtion on YT was reduced drastically since then. Also must have if you want play on YT something for kids.

Re: Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations

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Post by DiabloD3 » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 1:59 PM UTC

thepasswordis wrote: post #19

I 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…

Just do what I do: open the video, downvote it, then go back to the recommendations, hit the three dot menu, and click "do not show me this channel anymore", and if your sections have a three dot menu, "do not show me this section" for all the rightwing whackjob nutter categories.

Youtube eventually learned to stop showing it to me, and due to my downvotes, may be now restricting showing them to anyone.

Re: Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations

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Post by saikan » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 8:02 PM UTC

Nathanba wrote: post #107

suketk wrote: post #64

I've tried Unhook and DF YouTube, but I replaced them both with Undistracted [0]. It's more versatile - it has better configuration, supports more sites (Reddit, Facebook, etc) and allows an arbitrary block list. The internet would be a better place with the ability to hide recommended feeds [1]. They can be useful sometimes, but mostly they're used to distract you from your goal. It's the digital equivalent of placi…

my personal solution is to block all images on youtube. I am perfectly happy browsing for information on text-only hackernews so I decided that it should be enough for video search too.

or better yet - https://github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer