Youtube is now unusable without a frontend

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”

MashedTech,

I use YouTube with …google.com/…/bojdknokkpgboeonegndfcgkaommhleo

photonic_sorcerer,
@photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

You’re using Chrome in 2024 while also browsing Lemmy? Dear God, man. I wish I had your determination and\or powers of ignorance.

MashedTech,

I use what works best for me. I use Lemmy because it’s better than reddit. The official Reddit app is just unpleasant to use.

Here’s your Firefox plugin: addons.mozilla.org/…/youtube-suite-search-fixer/

cumskin_genocide,

I don’t know anyone that watches YouTube regularly. Seems like such a boomer thing

XTL,

Boomers watch broadcast TV. It’s what they grew up with.

HopFlop,

Do you need help lifting the rock you’re living under?

ikidd,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

Piped. Trust me.

notthoughtsjustcrabrave,

On a similar note, does anybody know of a frontend or add on for Instagram? I do not want the suggested content and reels they shove down everyone’s throats because it is very easy to waste hours and get distracted easily with it. Also no ads would be nice. I have to use Instagram to keep in touch with certain people who I have no alternative means of keeping in touch with.

cole,
@cole@lemdro.id avatar

you’re looking for “Instander”! I went on a quest for this myself awhile back

notthoughtsjustcrabrave,

Thanks!

Humorless4483,

I’ve been using beeper for the last 2 months and it has been working perfectly, I can see as video if someone sends a short, I can listen to an audio recording and see all of my messages without ever seeing the instagram feed.

penquin, (edited )

I simply just stopped searching or clicking on anything I’m not subbed to while logged in. It’s like you commit a crime when you click something. Next then thing you know, that same fucking channel is following everywhere you go, in the home page and under every video you watch. Fuck google and fuck all this enshitification campaign the internet is undergoing

potentiallynotfelix,

hold up… danTDM?

possiblylinux127,

They are in a endless cycle

Corigan,

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/6f4faa9c-e979-47cc-9ac4-0574c59e3be4.webp

I get nothing. Google is all pissy I turned off history and refuse to use their app. So they refuse to suggest anything.

The upside is no bloat and no ads, just have to know a topic.

potentiallynotfelix,

positive for me cause I dont want to see their shitty recommendations anyways. I just like/dislike a video to indicate I watched it.

KillingTimeItself,

as a boards lover myself, i just have to comment on this, for one, impeccable taste in music.

anyway, i tested this myself, seems fine. Have you tried disabling the watch history bullshit? It even lists a sidebar full of album related shit.

So uh, go off queen ig.

tatterdemalion,
@tatterdemalion@programming.dev avatar

I get usable results for “Boards of Canada”. You’ve got some personal problems happening.

Saltarello,

My method for android & desktop. I never sign in to YouTube & never use the app. Using Joplin synced through Nextcloud (any syncable note taking app would do the trick) I keep a list of channels (“subscriptions”) & interesting looking videos (“watch later”) which I group by length. Obviously, this way the links can be via Piped, YouTube whatever.

I only ever interract through browser which is never signed in. Kiwi browser on Android, Firefox or Brave on desktop. All of them run uBlock + SponsorBlock + DeArrow.

DeArrow is by the same dev/s as SponsorBlock & gives anti clickbait crowd sourced titles & thumbs. Its become an invaluable tool so I’m glad to have paid to offer some support.

All of the browsers have history/cookies etc cleared once closed.

Penguin_Rocket,
@Penguin_Rocket@lemmy.ml avatar

My method for android & desktop. I never sign in to YouTube & never use the app. Using Joplin synced through Nextcloud (any syncable note taking app would do the trick) I keep a list of channels (“subscriptions”) & interesting looking videos (“watch later”) which I group by length. Obviously, this way the links can be via Piped, YouTube whatever.

As a Joplin user, I find it interesting. So you have a “subscriptions” folder and a “watch later” folder? What is your routine?

Saltarello,

Nothing sophisticated, I just have a note for videos. The note has headings (use the [toc] trick at the top of the note to jump directly to the headings without having to scroll through everything)

You could categorise video links by genre or whatever your preference. I chose to categorise by length, say up 10 minutes, 11 to 20 minutes, 20 to 30 minutes & so on. So i set up appropriate headings.

Thats it. I also set up a heading for “Audio” as some videos are essentially podcasts, audio based talks etc & Kiwi browser allows background play.

Its a few extra steps over tapping “save for later” in YouTube app but it takes seconds to copy title, copy url & paste into a note & it caters for videos from any source. To remove myself from the shitty algorithm it works for me

Penguin_Rocket,
@Penguin_Rocket@lemmy.ml avatar

Thank you for describing your system. I didn’t even know that table of contents were available in Joplin.

Brutticus,

Man, I wonder if there will be freetube support for DeArrow that looks great

braxy29, (edited )

i ran into this kind of garbage the other day looking for a Nicholas Jaar video when i couldn’t recall the name. like BoC, there’s tons and tons of tracks by Jaar, but results gave me one or two of his most popular tracks and a buuuuuunch of other stuff. i couldn’t even just keep scrolling, there were a dozen results and then the “related search” garbage.

ugh, i’m so fed up with google, and at the same time not motivated enough to figure out workarounds. i have work and shit to do around my house.

i guess, with me, they won.

edit typo

slimarev92,

Works for me

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9d2c68e0-cb64-428b-8dfe-ded83ca0543a.jpeg

psud, (edited )

Fine for me too

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/67c450bc-f7f3-49f6-885c-6b30da4ff232.png

ColdWater,
@ColdWater@lemmy.ca avatar

Works fine on yt revanced 1000003714

feddylemmy,

I also got very relevant results for that query.

Marin_Rider,

I find most searches will give me the first 3 or videos meeting the criteria roughly followed by a bunch of random stuff that has nothing to do with what I searched

chemicalwonka,
@chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

soon google will block ALL forms of front ends

possiblylinux127,

I doubt it as that would break all of the embedded videos on the internet

Harbinger01173430,

It’s usable with the default stuff, well, minus the fucking 5 second ads

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • privacy@lemmy.ml
  • kavyap
  • thenastyranch
  • mdbf
  • DreamBathrooms
  • ngwrru68w68
  • magazineikmin
  • InstantRegret
  • Youngstown
  • vwfavf
  • slotface
  • everett
  • osvaldo12
  • rosin
  • khanakhh
  • megavids
  • tester
  • Durango
  • tacticalgear
  • GTA5RPClips
  • cisconetworking
  • ethstaker
  • cubers
  • normalnudes
  • modclub
  • provamag3
  • Leos
  • anitta
  • JUstTest
  • All magazines
    •