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This only works on the front page, which I have completely hidden on ReVanced (aka the normal YT app with patches) and it opens up straight in my subscriptions. But when I watch something, that's where the suggestions still pop up, and since I have a 21:9 screen in my phone they'll always pop up in my view. Using the non-patched app with ads and all the gay shit that ReVanced rectifies wouldn't change a thing, I also don't get those front page recommendations on ReVanced btw, but again, that's not the issue.Turn off your google search & watch history & use the normal YT app.
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Google turns it off for you, so they can force you to give your information to the jews at Goygle. It also doesn't let you use your Google Maps GPS either btw.
The issue with making a patch like that is that the way the app pulls those recommendations means that if you just hide that element, and you can, you will bombard YT's servers with requests because it'll still repeatedly try to load those recommendations, and there were reports of Google banning accounts that did so because they treated it as service abuse, so until someone figures out how to reliably stop that from happening there won't be a patch that cuts those out. It's way easier on the desktop web version where it's just an HTML element you can cut out, but with the official app it's far more complicated than that.
Also, I had all the Google history tracking shit disabled for years, and YT not showing front page suggestions with it off is a fairly new thing, but it still doesn't change the fact that they force the default suggestions on the video you're watching. They're in part stuff based on what you're actually watching, but more often than not the majority of those suggestions are clearly something YouTube forces, not something that's organically popular.
I once had a shitton of recommendations about Polish politics and the war in Ukraine show up when I did incognito comment checking, and one of those was hours old with no real views on it. And remember that those recommendations, and the ones I'm getting on my phone are what everyone else without an account sees by default. So I'm really leaning into the theory that YouTube promoted that video from Ordinary Things from the top because it spreads the agenda via that useful idiot and I genuinely despise it, because I just want to watch fun shit that I get in my subscription feed or purposefully look up myself, and those fucking recommendations ruin it for me.