alt Hacker NewsI’m a YouTube premium subscriber. Just yesterday I found myself opening a private window to watch a video with ads, rather than letting the algorithm know I was watching the video on my account. Even if I remove the video from my watch history, YouTube can’t help itself. You make a great point on stale content and the overall enshittification is becoming intolerable.
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the_af • today at 4:14 AM
Wow. In my case the YT recommendations system works very well, only suggesting things similar to what I've already watched and liked.
I would never use YouTube in incognito mode or logged out... it's positively garish and loud with garbage.
Pay a little extra for YouTube Premium Family and you can silo your interests to different Google profiles. I have work and home like this basically. Coding, AI, etc on one, cars, retro games on another. No ads.