Great video, thanks for posting! This guy articulated a lot of thoughts about algorithmic recommendations that I've never been quite able to form into coherent thoughts myself. I definitely understand why I decided to go all in with the fediverse or social web half a decade ago or so now.

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah what of the things that led me to using YouTube logged out was a small thing like getting bunch of video game spoilers if I viewed some videos of a game I was interested in or needed a walk through or tip on.

[–] Jagget@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don’t use YouTube “main” page. Only watch it from “subscriptions” page and uBlock’ed the recommendation column completely. This way I only see videos I want to watch.

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Another reason I prefer stuff like newpipe and its forks and freetube on desktop is to be able to access my subscription feed with a local one to reduce YouTube account use as much as possible.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For YouTube on android you can also use grayjay or revanced to set subscriptions as your home page!

(This is about a section in the video, not just a random non-sequitur 😅)

[–] fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

in newpipe you don't log into youtube. so minimal data harvesting.

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

I like the fork pipepipe since it has sponsorblock and also let's you use a YouTube account only for accessing age restricted videos, since YouTube disabled that for people without accounts.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Grayjay can work that way (optionally) too. Its pretty cool there are now a number of great ways to interact with YouTube that give users more agency! 😊

Invidious is also a thing, though I haven't used it much