I am so tired of being part of the YT algo. Is there a somewhat decent alternative to youtube? I already have Nebula but that doesn’t give me my news and show talking head fix

      • Sixty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        8 hours ago

        Homepage. That’s where those complaints that people never see a youtuber’s videos “anymore” comes from.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Its impossible for me to subscribe to a youtuber because I don’t have (and don’t want) a Youtube account. I understand Youtubers get more visibility with more subscriptions, but I just don’t want to be part of the algorithm. I can close my private browser, and any algorithm infection is wiped clean from my view.

      • abbadon420@lemm.ee
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        4 hours ago

        You can download newpipe and subscribe there. It makes a local subscription, no account needed. Also no ads.

      • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
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        5 hours ago

        because I don’t have (and don’t want) a Youtube account.

        Every channel has an RSS feed. I use that instead.

      • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
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        8 hours ago

        Depending on your setup, YouTube will still fingerprint your browser and track your behavior, as is common practice with ad networks.

        Your cookies and data might be cleared but as long as yt has any way to generate a unique identifier out of your browser preferences, it will identify you and start looking at your behavior / figuring out an algorithm.

        Just fyi.

        • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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          8 hours ago

          Sure, it can start building it again just with what I search to watch. Then I get to close the browser again and wipe it clean again. I know that fingerprinting exists, but I’m not seeing its behavior for video suggestions. In fact, I do see tracking by IP because I’ll get suggested things I know my wife is looking at (and we’re coming from the same IP). Even those are few and far between though.