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PaperclipPerfector  1yr ago (text post)   3073 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for October 27, 2023

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Since no one mentioned it as an option yet, I've been surprisingly happy with the YouTube client FreeTube. It's a bit more cumbersome than using the browser directly, but I didn't want to risk any possibility of my primary google account getting somehow permanently flagged by their new tattler script. I'm sure they will block the API at some point, but until then... I also found out that youtube has not been showing me new videos by a decent fraction of the channels I am subscribed to, that still show up to the RSS based feed check FreeTube uses.

Long term I'm not sure what my plan is. I guess probably trying to watch fewer videos.

has not been showing me new ... I am subscribed to, that still show up to the RSS based feed

That's why I avoid "algorithmic"1 feeds whenever possible: No, they don't know what I want to see better than I do. They may be able to predict what I'll click on or how to maximize my time on the site, but that's just a proxy measure.

1 Yes, I know that "If there's a new post, list it" is technically an algorithm, but it doesn't count.

I strongly doubt they'd ever outright ban you for using an adblock.

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