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YouTube Has Reportedly Stopped Working in Russia (united24media.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Could we just get YouTube to stop working…everywhere?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

No way, then I'd have to actually pay people to fix stuff.

Now if shorts stopped working, id be good with that.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

eh, there have been some education shorts I've seen that got me to subscribe to their YouTube channel.

I just want to have the ability to control the algorithm on my account so my recommendations don't get clogged with low quality, spammy, rage bait videos

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I just want to have the ability to control the algorithm

I know of at least one selfhosted alternative: https://github.com/chris-lovejoy/YouTube-video-finder

There may be others if you look around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

thanks for this, will take a look later

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

You might be, but the vast majority of the population would not like it.

Sure one could argue that the content is addictive and they shouldn't want to view that stuff, but that's a separate issue.

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