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Youtube is now unusable without a frontend (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have an extension that can individually disable all the most useless/addicting components of the Youtube site, such as shorts and whatnot. On the search page, I have turned on:

hide Shorts

hide For You

hide Trending

hide 'People Also Searched For'

hide Search Categories

hide Promoted Videos

hide Promoted Websites

hide Suggested Products

Do you know what Youtube has started doing? They are now inserting engagement slop DIRECTLY into the search results, as seen in the image above. It's literally a short, yet it's inserted like a video so you're forced to see it. The only possible way to remove it is by using a privacy frontend, as even on incognito mode, Youtube will look at the three videos you've watched and start inserting shit based off that.

Louis Rossman is right, they all have rapist mentalities... "just let me stick it in"

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Piped. Trust me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

On a similar note, does anybody know of a frontend or add on for Instagram? I do not want the suggested content and reels they shove down everyone's throats because it is very easy to waste hours and get distracted easily with it. Also no ads would be nice. I have to use Instagram to keep in touch with certain people who I have no alternative means of keeping in touch with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

you're looking for "Instander"! I went on a quest for this myself awhile back

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I’ve been using beeper for the last 2 months and it has been working perfectly, I can see as video if someone sends a short, I can listen to an audio recording and see all of my messages without ever seeing the instagram feed.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago

People here won't complain about anything until their favourite youtuber tells them why it's bad.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I simply just stopped searching or clicking on anything I'm not subbed to while logged in. It's like you commit a crime when you click something. Next ~~then~~ thing you know, that same fucking channel is following everywhere you go, in the home page and under every video you watch. Fuck google and fuck all this enshitification campaign the internet is undergoing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

hold up... danTDM?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

They are in a endless cycle

[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I get nothing. Google is all pissy I turned off history and refuse to use their app. So they refuse to suggest anything.

The upside is no bloat and no ads, just have to know a topic.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

positive for me cause I dont want to see their shitty recommendations anyways. I just like/dislike a video to indicate I watched it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

as a boards lover myself, i just have to comment on this, for one, impeccable taste in music.

anyway, i tested this myself, seems fine. Have you tried disabling the watch history bullshit? It even lists a sidebar full of album related shit.

So uh, go off queen ig.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

I get usable results for "Boards of Canada". You've got some personal problems happening.

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