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Alternative for YouTube recommendations? (feddit.nu)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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I have an old Google account that I only use for one specific thing today: YouTube recommendations.

Their algorithm is actually decent. Which is not something I hear myself very often. And while it can be a trap, it does actually recommend me a fair bit of high quality content as long as I stay away from the obvious traps, make sure to block channels I don't like, and use the feature "not interested" on videos that I don't like.

However. I would like to only use my web feed client and no Google account at all, but I would then miss out on the recommended videos.

Is there some privacy respecting alternative to this that I'm not aware of?

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[–] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Maybe invidious or use freetube.

There is also grayjay, and while it works pretty fine I believe there where some controversies around the program even tho I don't know the reason.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Doesn't those work like Piped, that you get recommendations based on the current video your viewing?

    I was talking about the general recommendations that you get based on what you watch over time. :)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    The controversy is that the code is not fully open source, but it was originally labeled as FOSS.

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