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”

  • SexDwarf@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’ve used Vanced, ReVanced, Newpipe, LibreTube etc. for years and finally just gave up with the neverending third part app hassle, got YouTube Premium and disabled watch history. Sure it’s costly, but at least everything works, there are no ads and shorts don’t work without watch history. Win some, lose some ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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      6 months ago

      You sparked my interest, in which way YouTube premium is better than newpipe ?( I’m using the sponsor block version) I mean you won’t convince me to give my money to such evil company but I’m curious about what convinced you …

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        6 months ago

        Some people just don’t like the hassle. In my opinion, having had premium and used revanced with sponsorblock, revanced is better.

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          6 months ago

          Yeah I understand it’s a personal point of view for me setting up my card and remember to pay is way worse hassle, on the other hand also installing newpipe and learning a new interface it’s not that easy …

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        I was a YouTube premium family account owner. Paid for myself, my partner and three friends accounts (think it was five slots?)

        The recent price hike was too much, so I’ve been using frontends as of late.

        The YouTube premium experience is seamless, much faster than the frontends but at the same time your getting shit shoveled down your throat at every chance.

        I’ve had lots of issues with libretube servers as of late. Pipe pipe is better but overall since I dropped my sub I’ve been watching far less on YouTube as a whole.

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        Out of those I mentioned, Newpipe was actually my favourite (LibreTube felt too beta, only used it for a week at most) and I’ve used it for years. Vanced was great too. But there’s always something, like what happened to Vanced for example. I don’t know, I felt like I was spending way too much time installing third party apps, trying to get them to work properly after Google’s endless shenanigans. Paying them is more convenient / less time consuming.

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      6 months ago

      Same here. I know we’re pariahs for admitting something so obvious, but sometimes the easiest way to get good service is to actually pay for it. Youtube Music alone is worth the monthly sub, since it is VASTLY superior to Spotify.

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        The problem is that YouTube music is vastly inferior to google play music.

        I’m not a fan of services that make themselves worse and then charge you for it.

        The paid experience is a decent one, but it isn’t the same as service that I want. I want to control what I watch and not be fed what they think I want to watch.

        But I don’t disagree that paying for a good service is worth it.

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        6 months ago

        Aren’t playlists still broken? I remember shuffle not working, repeating some songs and then going off with unrelated videos before the playlist was even over.