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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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[–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (1 child)

Unfortunately, there's nothing close to the actual algorithm. You either use YT without an account in a privacy-focused web browser with uBO installed. That's as far as you go. And of course, sensitive and political topics are always to be watched in NewPipe/PipePipe/LibreTube etc.

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