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For me it seemed to have been the "annoyances" filter list that fixed it:
So if anyone is still having issues, try this.
Youtube General thread (formerly Youtube Censorship discussion thread)
- Thread starter The handsome tard
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So if anyone is still having issues, try this.
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I'm being hounded by this one specific Bobby Broccoli video about Enrico Fermi. Youtube really really really really really really really really wants me to watch it for some reason even though I've already watched it multiple times. Its the strangest thing. It will pop up randomly in recommendations and immediately start autoplaying after videos about any given topic and genre no matter how much I click off. Its like I'm being pursued by it across the website. Each time its "Enrico Fermi." click "Enrico Fermi." click "Enrico Fermi.". I could try stronger measures to stop it but the available options youpoop gives look like they affect recommendations more widely than I would like and I'm sort of curious how long this will keep up. Its been like this it seems like a year or more.
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Youtube REALLY wants me to watch Vtubers for some reason. It constantly recommends me fucking Vtuber shit and no matter how many times I click "Not interested" or "Don't recommend channel" it keeps doing it.
No youtube, I will not watch an E-Girl 2.0 channel, for the last fucking time.
No youtube, I will not watch an E-Girl 2.0 channel, for the last fucking time.
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There has to be a script, somewhere to block this type of "craptent". I'm sorry I don't know how, but I think there's a blacklist for this type of channel & many others, if you input certain keywords in it.
I just wish I knew the extension name.
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My solution for avoiding the algorithm has been to neuter it as much as I possibly can. Browsing and search history are turned off, any YT settings in the Google account are off, everything besides subscribed channels and my own profile are disabled on my Vanced instance so that I'm isolated only to my feed alone. My account has been in stasis for years now and it helped me ignore anything that YT would try to throw my way.
They were once men
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i shit you not sometimes i am playing a game on steam and then i open youtube and i'll have recommended videos of that exact game. Freaky
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I get recommended a combination of game streamers and foreign language content, sometimes both in one video no matter how times I tell it to stop recommending the channels.
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BlockTube is on Firefox and Chrome, works on the channel, video, content keywords which I assume is just title parsing. Can even do regex if you want to make more problems for yourself.
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FreeTube, while a separate program rather than an extension (this is good if you like using your browser without having to have five different YouTube fixing extensions that might be bought by a bad actor at any time installed), supports this.
(as well as having full SponsorBlock and DeArrow de-shittified title integration)
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I switched to FreeTube because YouTube has been pissing me off with frozen tabs. It's okay so far, but when you want to hide thumbnails, it just makes them look like this:
Also, the option to display titles without excessive capitalization doesn't work, there aren't any options to hide channel icons or banners, and the team behind it wants you to sit through sponsored segments like a good little goy.
I don't care if sponsorships are privacy-friendly or skipping them hurts people's income. We need to go back to the time where people made videos about topics they were interested in or passionate about.
Also, the option to display titles without excessive capitalization doesn't work, there aren't any options to hide channel icons or banners, and the team behind it wants you to sit through sponsored segments like a good little goy.
I don't care if sponsorships are privacy-friendly or skipping them hurts people's income. We need to go back to the time where people made videos about topics they were interested in or passionate about.
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It looks like Brave has kept the ads at bay again on my laptop
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I feel very fortunate that I have yet to be selected to be a participant in any of these anti-adblock tests. Either that, or Brave has been very good at staying on top of it.
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Thumbnails have never bothered me, but there is DeArrow support for that which may work for more popular videos. My understanding is that the FreeTube team is reluctant to make changes that would result in having to maintain really distinct sets of UI code, though you'd think something could be done to hide those thumbnails with CSS.
I mean, they're not wrong about sponsorships being a more moral way for (some) creators to make money than advertising. But it's not like those sponsors are going to know that I autoskipped every one of their segments in Freetube and when I watch offline with videos downloaded via yt-dlp and synced to my phone with syncthing to watch as podcasts, and pay guys like Jeff Geerling less.
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Why is it?
Also I doubt the debate in most 'creators' minds goes past "Revenue stream that goes right to me, not through Google, mmmmm."
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Advertising and to a lesser extent, YouTube superchats, help make operation of YouTube as a loss-leading propaganda platform for evil less unprofitable. Anything that bypasses that is good.
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Scam companies paying YouTubers to spend five minutes shilling their products or services is not more moral than large corporations paying for commercials on TV or billboards near roads. All these things are forced onto you. Sponsorships on YouTube are only marginally better because you can have software to skip them automatically.
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It looks like Brave has kept the ads at bay again on my laptop
Yeah, Brave got it back in control.
I wonder how long until Google legit tries a move against Brave but then again, they have bigger fish to fry like the monopoly legal case.