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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by DanTDM@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I have an extension that can individually disable all the most useless/addicting components of the Youtube site, such as shorts and whatnot. On the search page, I have turned on:

hide Shorts

hide For You

hide Trending

hide 'People Also Searched For'

hide Search Categories

hide Promoted Videos

hide Promoted Websites

hide Suggested Products

Do you know what Youtube has started doing? They are now inserting engagement slop DIRECTLY into the search results, as seen in the image above. It's literally a short, yet it's inserted like a video so you're forced to see it. The only possible way to remove it is by using a privacy frontend, as even on incognito mode, Youtube will look at the three videos you've watched and start inserting shit based off that.

Louis Rossman is right, they all have rapist mentalities... "just let me stick it in"

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[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 6 months ago
[-] letsgo@lemm.ee 23 points 6 months ago

Yal'l n'eed t'o lear'n a'bou't apo'str'phe pl'ac'em'en't'.

[-] ma1w4re@lemm.ee 31 points 6 months ago
[-] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Damn... That's a good username. Wish I had thought of it

[-] Sunny@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 months ago

you can have it too, considering you're on separate instances :P

[-] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Nah, I don't feel like starting a new account, nor adding to the unnecessary confusion of multiple users with the same name. I'm kinda happy I'm the only one of me rn

[-] CliveRosfield@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

This boy ain’t right

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

Rookie numbers! Needs more apostrophes.

[-] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 17 points 6 months ago

It's "y'all" - as in a contraction of "you all."

this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2024
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