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

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by DanTDM@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago

Uh, yeah. Use , give search term, go to tab or corresponding functionality.

Why would you use youtube's internal search anyway? It's age-old knowledge that such platforms use algorithms to "engage" (manipulate) you.

[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

It's usable with the default stuff, well, minus the fucking 5 second ads

[–] Cistello@reddthat.com 1 points 6 months ago

Pretty sure my Adblocker already does all of this I still use Youtube about 10% of the time to find new channels Piped provides some suggestions while you watch some Video but it can't replaces YT's homefeed

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

In using smarttube on my shield and search works perfectly, and revanced still works on mobile. I never use thd Tube on desktop, is there no good solution on that platform?

[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I use YouTube with https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/search-fixer-for-youtube/bojdknokkpgboeonegndfcgkaommhleo

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[–] bootinelli@lemmyis.fun -3 points 6 months ago

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

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