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• Cheebus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I turned YouTube history off and just watch videos through “my subscriptions”

  For me it’s a game changer

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  • xylol@leminal.space ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I basically did the same thing but have a YouTube downloader that puts them on my Plex server. So I can watch a show then like a YouTube video and call it a night

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  • shifty@leminal.space ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I degoogled, so I don’t login.

    Youtube Unhook and SponsorBlock Extensions in Firefox

    “Hide YouTube related videos, comments, video suggestions wall, homepage recommendations, trending tab, and other distractions.

    A browser extension to eliminate distractions on YouTube, including the recommended sidebar, endscreen video suggestions, user comments, homepage related videos feed, trending tab, turn off autoplay or annotations, and more. Toggle the options through the popup to customize your own YouTube experience!”

    I go to youtube website and its just a blank page with a sidebar and a searchbar. My subscriptions are just bookmarked pages of people I follow, or I subscribe through Grayjay.

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    • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I do something similar, not as many extensions and very incomplete bookmarks. Most of the time I just go through a list in my head, so sometimes I remember a channel I haven’t checked in a while and then have enough videos to watch for a week.

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• protist@retrofed.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  YouTube is still amazing, you just have to ignore the algorithm, which is easy enough through subscriptions

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• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have never really thought of YouTube as social media, but you have a point.

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  • Ydna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It leaned further into it back during the google+ days. There were feeds that showed your friends activity, comments, reply videos, etc. It’s interesting that they went in other directions.

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