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I get that lots of people are here because they’re against modern trends in Internet applications. But can we stop with the constant complaints of the exact same issues every single day? It’s frustrating. You’re preaching to the choir and saying nothing original.
At the end of the day if the average user cared they wouldn’t be able to get away with it.
Most people just don’t give a shit. They just want to watch videos without paying.
Most of us are just to tired at the end of the day to do anything. Paying bills, barely affording rent or food, and being stuck in a shit job. Not to mention a commute that sucks 2 hours out of our lives everyday.
Why don’t you just try being rich???
And most creators want to get paid for the work they put into their videos.
People look for echo chambers, Lemmy is no different. Like any community, it’s full of people who want to be heard but have nothing to say.
This is why I feel nothing ever changes in north america, people become complacent in everything thats around them and can be improved upon.
If only people would get angry and organize, but I get it we are all tired working 9-5 everyday with long commutes and paying to much for everything. At the end of the day we just want to sit down and switch off.
The irony is thatthe YouTube algorithm thinks that’s what they want to see based on their viewing history…
My feed is usually pretty rad. I love that they’re adding more small channels to mix, I found a great one the other day that way (Ideal Idea). The only thing I really hate and can’t get rid of is Shorts
If you don’t like a suggestion, click the dots and pick Not Interested or Don’t Recommend This Channel. It’s easy.
The YouTube algorithm is garbage. More than once it’s just completely removed channels I watch pretty much daily from my suggestions. The not interested filter is woefully inadequate as they have no idea what the actual reason for disinterest was. I still get 100 flavors of lofi videos in my suggestions despite flagging every single one. YouTube’s interpretation of that? Remove all other forms of music.
I can’t say I’ve had that same experience. I filtered out the playlist channels and I’m still seeing suggestions from artists I like along with tons of stuff I’m interested in
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
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According to YouTube you just need to shut up and accept it.
YouTube has gone drastically downhill in the past year. It had been going downhill for a while, but it is basically an ad platform with terrible content now.
Plenty of good content on youtube. And even in the earlier days, a lot of content was terrible. Shaky home videos of some mom’s backyard? Yup.
What grinds my gears is the ads and the shorts. Fuck them both.
revanced, newpipe and clipious
and theres smartubenext for tv
I recently discovered some YouTube front-end apps that provide a better interface than the one in the native app. It was thanks to this comment made on another post about YouTube and ad-blockers:
https://lemmy.world/comment/5006617
Not sure if you have seen this or not, but if not, do try some of them out.
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i like the YouTube ui so i use revanced
I haven’t seen this in any of the lists, but would it be possible to create a YouTube premium app without all the anti-consumer design. Like a fork of the official app where I’d be able to login, but not have all the bloat and just have search, subscriptions and playlists.
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grayjay is a pretty good app
They also went back on their policy of not allowing COVID and election misinformation.
You want to support your favorite content creators? But their shit or donate to their Patreon. Almost none of them make money off YouTube’s ads.
This sort of thing is true for the official apps from a lot of companies and servies. But their respective mobile websites usually work just fine.
Use Piped, there are Android apps like Newpipe and Libretube that use the servers. And also Freetube for your PC.
The Vinegar extension for Safari is pretty good.
