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Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Re: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by crazygringo »

strickinato wrote: post #4

Actually - BOTH videos in the screenshot are ads - so there are zero videos on the homescreen already

I don't think so? The "I Skied Down Mount Everest" is from the Red Bull channel. It may be a commercial channel, but it's not an ad, i.e. they didn't pay for placement (doesn't say "Sponsored" like the other one).

Re: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by SchemaLoad »

guluarte wrote: post #3

also if you watch 1 single video about a topic, the next day your feed will be full of that

I usually don't mind that. Sometimes I'm looking in to a new product or hobby and really do want to see a whole bunch of that content. They also provide you a feed which purely contains channels you subscribe to, though I find it much lower quality than the normal feed.

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Post by superkuh »

You can use ublock origin browser extension per-site CSS rules to restore an arbitrary number of rows and columns to the youtube frontpage. https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/youtube is a good source for these if you don't know how to write them or don't want to.

    ! YouTube frontpage - 3 columns per row
    youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-row, #contents.ytd-rich-grid-row:style(display:contents !important;)
    youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-renderer, html:style(--ytd-rich-grid-items-per-row: 3 !important;)
    youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-renderer, html:style(--ytd-rich-grid-posts-per-row: 3 !important;)

    ! Optional: Hide the "Shorts" section to maintain clean 3x3 grid
    youtube.com##ytd-rich-section-renderer:style(display:none !important;)
But also, yikes.
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