Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

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Not really a "woe", but on a non-personalized YT front page, there were at least 3 "Beast Reacts" videos, and a "MrBeast" one. Seems the staff of YT really like that guy.

(also YT is still really pushing that Depp and Heard drama)
 
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Not really a "woe", but on a non-personalized YT front page, there were at least 3 "Beast Reacts" videos, and a "MrBeast" one. Seems the staff of YT really like that guy.

(also YT is still really pushing that Depp and Heard drama)
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The default Youtube page and recommendations are absolute cancer. Any time I go on it using a machine thats not logged in I feel like I lose IQ points.

I use newpipe on android which I think shows the default YT videos when you open it but thankfully you can disable it in the settings and make it show you your subscribed channels when you open the app. It has no account associated with it so I guess the "subscribe" function is just some form of RSS?
 
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Stasi said:
The default Youtube page and recommendations are absolute cancer. Any time I go on it using a machine thats not logged in I feel like I lose IQ points.

I use newpipe on android which I think shows the default YT videos when you open it but thankfully you can disable it in the settings and make it show you your subscribed channels when you open the app. It has no account associated with it so I guess the "subscribe" function is just some form of RSS?
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Youtube has had channel RSS feeds for ages, they're just advertised nowhere. The feed is at https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=channel_id_goes_here - the channel ID can be found in the channel's URL, e.g. UCgpVO5oxAh7oMk3vynU-2Vg for Null. Of course it might also just send requests to each channel itself to check for new videos.
 
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One of the things that seem to have popped up in the last past five years....if you have any sort of minor tech quibbles with Windows (or Mac), one of the first results is a "top five" things you can do and one of them is "install this software" that happens to be what the main page is.

A recent crash on my computer temporarily removed my option to delete stuff from my external hard drive, and after browsing through a bunch of pages that advertised their registry edit utilities, the most straight-forward, spam-free result that worked was this Pajeet Blogspot page from like 10 years ago. How is this the best result? Why is it so hard to find a page to fix the simplest things?
 
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One of the things that seem to have popped up in the last past five years....if you have any sort of minor tech quibbles with Windows (or Mac), one of the first results is a "top five" things you can do and one of them is "install this software" that happens to be what the main page is.

A recent crash on my computer temporarily removed my option to delete stuff from my external hard drive, and after browsing through a bunch of pages that advertised their registry edit utilities, the most straight-forward, spam-free result that worked was this Pajeet Blogspot page from like 10 years ago. How is this the best result? Why is it so hard to find a page to fix the simplest things?
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the first few sites that appear in search engine results tend to be built around optimising clicks, typically by including key words in the title, description, or the content itself.
for tech support help/guidance, you'd use the following key words to optimise your content for a search engine - top, works, easy, fix, solution, [the name of the hard/software itself], [the name of a similar product], and free.

it's how tech and game journalist sites still remain afloat when their articles are entirely trash; a search engine does not see the quality of the result, just how relevant it is to the query you've given it based on word association and a few other blackbox factors.
a little while back i was trying to find out how to find a specific item in a game, and half of the first page results were flooded with sites like IGN hosting their own mediocre, barely maintained wiki pages, while the games actual wiki itself is buried to a couple of result lines.
 
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If you're searching for at tech-related thing that might have a command line answer, skip Google and search GitHub Gists instead.

Spammers haven't taken over GitHub yet and Gists just give the solution, along with date and history and you can check the author's GitHub profile for reputation. No insane rambling or upvoting whoring either.

For anything tech Google keeps returning HackerNoon, Dev.to, Medium even freaking Quora when the actual useful andswer is in a Gist.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Not really a "woe", but on a non-personalized YT front page, there were at least 3 "Beast Reacts" videos, and a "MrBeast" one. Seems the staff of YT really like that guy.

(also YT is still really pushing that Depp and Heard drama)
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Who the fuck is that mrbeast? It's spammed on youtube so much that I don't bother to click. Just heard thats he's rich or something and wasting money on random/dumb things so I guess any video is not even worth watching.

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The default Youtube page and recommendations are absolute cancer. Any time I go on it using a machine thats not logged in I feel like I lose IQ points.
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I am concerned that it's not only yt problem but global plague of 'content' causing grey matter reduction / brain cells loss - that's a modern web woe
 
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Who the fuck is that mrbeast?
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Seems to be a wealthy philanthropist. "Beast" video thumbnails and titles are made to grab attention. There's the channels of "MrBeast", "Beast Reacts", "MrBeast Gaming", Spanish versions of each of those, and a philanthropy channel. Like I said, YT likes him: "Beast" vids are likely to show up anywhere from front page to "related" vids.
 
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Fucking sign up or purchase something on a website and get the unavoidable "I consent to joining (Random) mail list. Plus protonmail decided to email me about pride month for whatever reason.
 
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People have already mentioned how its impossible to scrub globohomo shit from your youtube homepage no matter how often you click not interested. I'm having the same experience with the edge browser and the background image on new tabs.

It keeps showing me LGBT shit, I've clicked not interested like 4 times in the last week and Edge is not getting the message. I've gone and disabled the background image in settings. The occasional nice landscape picture when you open a new tab is not worth being bombarded with faggotry.

Its just my laptop that I still use edge on and I should just migrate it to Brave like all my other devices.
 
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It can be annoying when a website changes a good layout to a crappy smartphone-y one. Like the text area is squished in the center.

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People have already mentioned how its impossible to scrub globohomo shit from your youtube homepage no matter how often you click not interested.
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You know wokeism is a cult when they've taken over Big Tech and have to preach woke at every opportunity they see.

I sometimes see various videos from organizations or colleges with speeches on race relations, with "equity" emphasized.
 
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People have already mentioned how its impossible to scrub globohomo shit from your youtube homepage no matter how often you click not interested. I'm having the same experience with the edge browser and the background image on new tabs.

It keeps showing me LGBT shit, I've clicked not interested like 4 times in the last week and Edge is not getting the message. I've gone and disabled the background image in settings. The occasional nice landscape picture when you open a new tab is not worth being bombarded with faggotry.

Its just my laptop that I still use edge on and I should just migrate it to Brave like all my other devices.
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Weird, I have nothing of that. What kind of globohomo shit are you talking about, videos I assume?
 
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