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Am I the only one whose "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/videos@lemmy.world
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I almost never watch "shorts" but my suggestions for it seem to have an...uhhh...adult theme. I don't watch any such thing with YouTube. Does everyone see garbage like this?

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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Here's my secret trick for making YouTube usable again:

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'd like to do that but that's also how YouTube indicates which videos you've already watched, which YouTube will frequently re-serve in your recommendations.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Oh, don't worry, reccomendations will be dead too! Fun fact, I turned off my Watch History 5+ years ago, but 6 months ago YouTube decided they, "needed," my history to give me recommendations. I decided that was fine, so now the Homepage tab is disabled, the Shorts tab is disabled, and now I just have a subscription list from creators I like! I still get related videos when watching a video, and that's more than adequate to discover new content. I don't have time to watch all my subscriptions anyway, so if YouTube can't reccomend 30 videos I've never seen before under every video I watch, what do I care?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I do something similar, but I guess scorched earth edition:

    • Only use firefox, no chrome or chromium variants

    • Never signed in to my google account (only have it to keep a gmail forward going for old ass subscriptions)

    • Have firefox configured to only keep whitelisted sites' cookies and data between restarts - google is not on that list

    • uBlock Origin

    The last several months I started seeing that youtube screen "enable history to see recommendations" blank page when first landing, as if it was a punishment to me. It's not. I remember all the channels I like, and it's easy enough to keep checking back. So that blank screen is actually a nice bonus to me.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    It's amazing how Google thinks giving you the content you actually want to see is some kind of punishment, especially when 90% of the other content is sweaty needs whining about how woke Hollywood is.

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