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      I leave it on, the suggestions are good as far as I can tell. What’s everyone’s beef with it?

      I don’t get the YouTube hate in general. It’s much more interesting than Netflix or TV so I’m happy to pay, although I pay Argentina rates courtesy of subscribing while connected to my VPN and I use Sponsor Block to skip the in-video ad reads. It still counts

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        Yeah, I’m all for privacy, but I actually get interesting things recommended by YouTube. If I turn this off won’t I just get random YouTube videos? No thanks. I also do use my watch history for “I watched it the other day, what was that video called again?”

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          Every time I set up a new computer, and before I log into Youtube and see my own recommendations, I look at the raw front page and am shocked that people find all that bullshit entertaining. Nothing but clickbait, drama, and political videos as far as the eye can see.

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            I recently started a new google account and was actually disturbed by the absolute shit on the raw front page.

            I actually tried to watch some of the videos to get an inkling of what is supposed to be appealing and I just couldn’t. It was sooooo bad.

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              It’s like any other social, they show you what the masses watch, andò what they want you to watch (mostly because they’re going to profit more if you watch ultramonetized videos)

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            Exactly, it’s total garbage. I’ve been training the algo for years, no way I’m giving that up

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          For me the thing that holds me back from using an alternative frontend is that the yt algoritm doesnt work on those. The thing that i hate is that it doesnt recommend the channels which I’m subscibed to most of the times. Also, on my FreeBSD-based mobile operanting system, there arent frontend wrappers so I’m left with the proprietary app which is included in the package store

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      I disabled my Google and YouTube’s history settings since 2019.

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        Some video suggestions let me suspect that this only disables me being able to see my history though.

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          I feel this too. When i listen to a song on one device then it gets recommended on another even with history off was kind of sus

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            Well, this is the point of “removing” tailored suggestions on YT’s homepage.

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              Idk why you would want less tailored suggestions for content. They’ll still suggest stuff, it just won’t be relevant to you. Shrug. I’m a big fan of YouTubers rec algorithm, especially for music.

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                Dude, I recently turned on my History for the first time since 2019, watched five monetized videos (long-form film-related stuffs, turned off uBlock Origin), and YT just flooded me with nonsense local stuffs with their ridiculous “thumbnails” on homepage.

                I was like, “lulz nope dis is disgusting.”

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      There’s a firefox plugin that redirects you to your subscriptions’ uploads instead of that nonsense that “Home” was. Highly recommend.