No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me

Re:No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me by sshine on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @05:30AM (#31325115)

Personally, the algorithm works very effectively at stealing my time.

Bikini catwalks, scamming phone scammers, MMA fights, math entertainment, people who build cool shit.

This is of course subjective, but I basically can't open youtube.com without wasting 10 minutes.

If I ever get the idea of going to YouTube for a legit purpose (e.g. finding a conference talk, or listening to music), my brain's first response is "oh no", because I know I have to endure at least ten minutes of entertainment. YouTube's TikTok clone is even worse, but not as good as actual TikTok.

I can only say it works like drugs.

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Re:No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me by sph on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @06:26AM (#31325416)

> I basically can't open youtube.com without wasting 10 minutes

It's the opposite for me. These days when I have 10 minutes I open YouTube and there's nothing interesting. It recommends me irrelevant stuff, stuff I've seen already, shorts or trending video crap interspersed in between in case I've suddenly become real interested in the Kardashians and football news.

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Re:No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me by unicornporn on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @07:46AM (#31325923)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/df-youtube/

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Re:No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me by mschuster91 on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @07:01AM (#31325616)

> scamming phone scammers

Mark Rober, I guess? No wonder the algorithm promotes him to heaven and beyond, the content he puts out is extremely well done.

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Re:No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me by Nextgrid on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @04:52PM (#31332548)

I feel like his content is way too sensationalist. I much prefer Jim Browning when it comes to scammer payback.

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