Yeah if you don’t have an account with a customised feed and no adblocker youtube is unusable.
I use firefox with ublock origin and sponsorblock and revanced on my phone for that very reason
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Curious you’d say that. I’ve been using youtube without a user account since it has been introduced.
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It’s interesting because I don’t really “follow” any YouTubers or anything else for the matter. I have no people that I regularly watch. And that isn’t saying that there aren’t people out there that I’d watch or that consistently have good content…I just rarely find myself watching things unless I’ve specifically sought them out. The amount of ads to watch a video nowadays is aggravating. I miss the 6 seconds and then SKIP function that seems to be missing from a lot of videos now…now you have a full-on 30 or 60 minute ad.
The only videos that I will often click and watch are the stupid Haulover Inlet ones that show boats trying to navigate the sometimes treacherous waves down at that Florida inlet. It’s fun to see how terrible some people are at driving boats…and the poor decisions they make. I used to watch that dude that was a pilot who bought the sailboat (Sailing Doodles). His first couple of years were fun and entertaining…and he always had smoke-show gals onboard…but you could see him falling into the quest for clicks and subs trap where I think he overdramatisized (I don’t know how to spell that word) some events. Some looked downright suspicious. I stopped watching…but will probably pick it up again sometimes just to see how that story ends (or continues).
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Firefox + uBlock Origin is your friend. It can block all ads on youtube. I don’t understand why people put up with Google phasing out Chrome plugins.
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Ross game dungeon is one i never miss. A great youtuber.
A couple of the humvee guys i follow are very good also.
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You know it’s a losing battle… Soon as any app becomes “good”, it’s bought by google or microsoft…
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Unless we popularise it with the niche crowd alone… then it might last longer 
Self-hosting is the future (as it was the past) - provided we can keep the corpo-governments and colluding ISPs from killing it!
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On the occasion that we use youtube at work it’s always horrendous 
Using revanced on my phone I have a customized feed that uses the subscription page as default without any shorts, but most of the videos on the recommended feed are actually stuff I’m interested in as well.
On Windows I use Firefox with uBlock origin and the sponsorblock extension. It works very well.
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I’m waiting for my offer from Gates or Bezos or Ellison to buy Mudspike.
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No calls huh. Sure you sent them the correct phonenumber?
Im thinking rumble is the new frontier. its only political if you look at that part
It filters into other aspects. That’s how it always goes and always has, though.
The slogan of rumble:
Fearless
Bold
Unfiltered
Authentic
First screenshot of the app in the app store shows Tucker Carlson. Second one Football.
I don‘t feel addressed 
(sorry, got political for a second)
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And that is fine. Different strokes for different folks.
The monopolization of social media is not a good thing. Apart from content, people also have wildly different moderation needs. Some want a wild west, rowdy pub, where (almost) anything can be said. Others want a psychologically safe, calm, harmonious house to share.
Just like in the real world. And just like in the real world, we should be able to organize ourselves, start our own clubs, and set our own rules within those clubs (within the boundaries of (inter)national law of course).
But that doesn’t mean we always want to only interact within that club.
It’s why I’m such a fan of the Fediverse. Tech like Mastodon (Twitter-like), Lemmy (Reddit-like) and Peertube (YouTube-like) all allow the following:.
- The software is free and open source, such that:
- Anyone can set up their own place. They call this an instance. This is not like a reddit community or discord “server”, but really your own: you set the rules, you determine who can create an account on it, you pay the bills and run it on your own hardware and you can even modify the software if you wish.
- You can exchange content (tweets, threads, comments, videos) with other instances. Other instances can also be blocked per account or for the entire instance.
This is called federation and it’s just like email: I don’t need a Google account to mail someone who has Gmail. Different instances (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, Proton, Fastmail) exchange content in a common format.
It’s a shame Peertube hasn’t taken off but Mastodon is large enough to be quite good and for my content tastes, Lemmy is great fun too
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Yeah Mastodon is great. Though the crowd seems very IT and science heavy.
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I use Mastodon already for a few month and definitely will check out Lemmy. Thanks!
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@sobek yeah that’s why I said for my tastes.
Tech, science, news and memes is pretty much what I used to look at on Reddit anyways, but Lemmy is not on Reddit’s level with respect to niche communities.
@Poneybirds Remember to be liberal with blocking communities: use it as a way to curate your “all” feed. I recommend the Voyager app as a frontend.
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That‘s good advice. I‘ll check out voyager.
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Oh wow, I tested SponsorBlock on Firefox and this is the first impression:
On watching the most recent video of Linus Tech Tips about Nvidia GPUs, it skipped over the two long sponsor segments automatically. And it marks them green on the timeline. Nice.
But it also highlights an important bit in red: The one second where Linus casually drops the info that there is a performance embargo for the next couple of weeks. Impressive! I totally missed that info earlier when watching the vid in Edge.
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