Again, another case of, I should pay attention to my own warnings about 2024. Something weird I've been noticing lately you can probably imagine how autistic my youtube feed looks in comparison to the average normie but perhaps it's due to me clicking around movie clips or something occasionally the stupid algorithm has decided that means I consent to having all of these normie channels shoved in my face.
Among the weird channels I've been recommended are these cringey recap channels which are the laziest content ever and literally just jump cut clips and a robot voice doing summaries of movie plots. It was getting spammed so bad at me that I ended up making liberal use of youtube extension to block the offending channels.
Now I'm even being recommended normie shit like commentary channels among other things and youtube WON'T FUCKING LEAVE ME ALONE. I think this is classic youtube tinkering of the algorithm in order to try and shove mainstream channels in your face in an effort to 'de-radicalise' you except in typical incompetent programmer fashion it's recommending all the other crap along with it including television related stuff which I've gotten a bit of.
This is a bit like if I wanted to watch anime online and instead of recommending me anime to watch it just spams Breaking Bad and shitty cop shows in my face, all this is going to do is piss me off.
Look, to make youtube functional, you need certain add ons.
Ublock Origin for ad block
Clickbait remover gets rid of arrowed thumbnails and RANDOM capitalised words like that.
Return Dislike because of course YT removed it.
Sponsor block skips segments in videos where people shill ads. Don't let them waste your time.
Enchancer for Youtube is out of date due to YT changing the site so much but it still has a bunch of basic features like double speed playback
But you want either Blocktube or Channel Blocker for YT. I hate those annoying Gamespot "expert rates firearms in videogames" vids because they always get traction. Just block the channel and bam, all gone.
It's insane what you have to do now to even use YouTube. It should just... Ya know, work. I only use freetube now but I used half these addons also before. It's a damn shame youtube became so fucked.
Just to add to this, I set bookmarks on my phone and pc to go to youtube/feed/subscriptions instead of the YT home page. While they still unsubscribe me periodically from wrongthink channels, at least starting from my feed shows me the most recent videos from channels I'm subbed to.
Also, I do basically the same thing on Rumble and click there first before going to YT. A lot of times I get my fill of "time wasting" on Rumble before even going to YT. Win-win.
I'll add to this list:
Unhook, to remove as little or as much of YouTube as you want. You can completely remove the sidebar recommended videos, the home page, the post-video page, etc.
Marking this comment so that I dont forget Clickbait Remover. Thank you..