I am so tired of being part of the YT algo. Is there a somewhat decent alternative to youtube? I already have Nebula but that doesn’t give me my news and show talking head fix

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Its impossible for me to subscribe to a youtuber because I don’t have (and don’t want) a Youtube account. I understand Youtubers get more visibility with more subscriptions, but I just don’t want to be part of the algorithm. I can close my private browser, and any algorithm infection is wiped clean from my view.

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      22 days ago

      Depending on your setup, YouTube will still fingerprint your browser and track your behavior, as is common practice with ad networks.

      Your cookies and data might be cleared but as long as yt has any way to generate a unique identifier out of your browser preferences, it will identify you and start looking at your behavior / figuring out an algorithm.

      Just fyi.

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      21 days ago

      because I don’t have (and don’t want) a Youtube account.

      Every channel has an RSS feed. I use that instead.

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      21 days ago

      You can download newpipe and subscribe there. It makes a local subscription, no account needed. Also no ads.