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If that wasn't a worse experience than using an adblock or sponsor block..
How is it worse?
Bruh. You're welcome to try it and see for yourself.
YT without additional client-side mods is nagware filth full of Tiktok shit in the form of shorts, endless sponsor sections per video, awful community posts because what a video platform needs to be is social media too, and no end of miscellaneous garbage.
I have and I have not really experienced what you describe or don't care.
Maybe this is an app/browser thing? I almost only ever used the app for the past 8 years so I've not bothered to optimise the web client, perhaps there is a large difference there?
The one thing you mention that I have seen is the shorts. But that is one recommendation second from the top of the feed which I just scroll past and I'm not bothered by again, and occasionally the shorts are of interest to me.
It's possible we have very different tolerances, or what I consider severe annoyances aren't so for you.
The YT app by default is clogged with bullshit that gets in the way of my primary use case, which is to see videos from people I'm subscribed to, as well as occasional fresh recommendations. When I open it right now, even using a patched app, the entire front page is taken up by crap I'm not interested in, like live streams, shorts, or playlists.
Further, my modified client has a ton of QOL feature that YT either never had or has deprecated, like forcing video resolution and so on.
Strange. Some of that I have literally never seen promoted, like live streams.
The one gripe i do agree with is the promoted playlists (mixes), that is completely useless to me and I would like to disable the feature. It's not a major issue, it takes a millisecond to scroll past but it is a completely unnecessary annoyance and I dont see why they wouldn't allow you to disable this.
Furthermore, I might have agreed with you more a few years ago (4+ maybe), when the recommendation algorithm was pure garbage, but as it is now I rely more on the algorithm than subscriptions anyway. First off, the rexommendqtions are pretty good and include plenty of things I wouldn't have found ok my own and it also solves the issue of creators that make different kinds of content on same channel, only some of which I'm interested in, which used to be a frequent problem for me.
I'm quite happy with the recommendations myself, I guess we simply have different thresholds for annoyance.
I still suggest you try a modded client yourself, if you're feeling conscientious you could still pay for Premium and use it too, I think you'd find that acceptable right?
Sure, if I ever get the energy to set one up. I don't really care about improving the user experience right now, it doesn't really bother me. If they introduce something that does though I might check it out.
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