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I found a browser addon that just redirects the home page to my subscription page. There was nothing of note on the home page before and there sure as hell isn’t now
Even if there were none, I wouldn’t budge. Call me stubborn, but I was fine when they moved from wanting a finger to wanting whole hand. But now they want an arm and a leg, preferably part of your soul. Yeah, I can live without it. Most of the content has been deteriorating in quality anyway thanks to their algorithm changes. Number of creators who make content which is not formulaic and is actually useful is shrinking constantly or migrating to other services.
I subscribe to most channels I enjoy but still appreciate the recommendations as I find a lot of new videos/channels of interest without having to wade through a bunch of low quality/uninteresting content. It’s felt pretty stale lately but at least I’m not getting a bunch of right wing propaganda these days.
I turned off my Youtube history, and now my YouTube home page is just a message asking me to turn it back on. It’s weird.
I found a browser addon that just redirects the home page to my subscription page. There was nothing of note on the home page before and there sure as hell isn’t now
Do you remember what the addon was called?
*edit: Nevermind - found it! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-sub-redirect/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search
Same, but am standing strong on my decision. If they want to chase me away, I’ll find a different place.
There are alternatives these days. Which is cool.
Even if there were none, I wouldn’t budge. Call me stubborn, but I was fine when they moved from wanting a finger to wanting whole hand. But now they want an arm and a leg, preferably part of your soul. Yeah, I can live without it. Most of the content has been deteriorating in quality anyway thanks to their algorithm changes. Number of creators who make content which is not formulaic and is actually useful is shrinking constantly or migrating to other services.
They recently announced they’d be doing this for people with history turned off.
It’s so much better… subscribing I much better than their algorithm.
I subscribe to most channels I enjoy but still appreciate the recommendations as I find a lot of new videos/channels of interest without having to wade through a bunch of low quality/uninteresting content. It’s felt pretty stale lately but at least I’m not getting a bunch of right wing propaganda these days.