• foggy@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I am excited. This will break my YouTube addiction.

    It’ll only affect me when I need to fix something I’m unfamiliar with, and it’llead creators to using other platforms for that kind of material, and lower the barrier to entry.

    I don’t know why Google is shooting themselves in the foot like this. I mean, it’ll be profitable in the short run, yes, but this will almost certainly be devastating to their bottom line in the long run if it works as planned.

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      4 months ago

      Have you looked at the Unhooked extension. You can choose to hide recommended videos, which was a game changer for me.

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        4 months ago

        Disabling my watch history did the trick lol

        YouTube’s recommendations are such absolute trash if you turn that off (I’m assuming intentionally, to get you to enable it).