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Youtube sometimes decides to change what I'm searching for without any input. Like autocorrect, but it just changes the whole search term to something else.
try using frontends like invidious
This shit shouldn't just be illegal, everyone who approved of this at every level should be executed for the good of humanity
jumping on the google bandwagon i see. Google decided to always make the first result NOT what you want when you search for an app because people will click it blindly and then Google gets some money.
Apple instating ads, Google trying to lock down Android from sideloading. What is this cursed timeline? Oh right, late stage capitalism where even the niches businesses carved out for themselves blur and dissolve to give way to the quest for ever greater profits.
Im NOT free from corpo influence just yet but I will never use an apple phone again .
are there good apps in existence? 
i wonder if i am boomerifying or app space is just same boring shit
There are! But mostly in the open source space. If you have an Android phone, check out
- Newpipe / Tubular -- YouTube
- Harmonic -- Hacker News
- Thunder -- Lemmy
- Mihon -- manga
- LNReader -- light novels
- Aniyomi -- anime
- Loop Habit Tracker -- in case checking boxes helps you achieve goals
- Time.to -- time tracker
- Simple Time Tracker -- pomodoro timer
- Digipaws -- focus tracker
- Simple: Fitness simplified -- workout planner
- Feeel -- home workout planner
There are also some non open-source apps that are still respectful:
- Just Run -- Couch-to-5K or 10k trainer
- Medito -- meditations (technically open-source but not accepting new contributions)
- How We Feel -- emotion/mood tracker
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