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I think Id have to say youtube. That shitty site just keeps getting shittier and just when you think they cant fuck things up more than they have they set new standards of shitty shitfullness.
There was once a day long ago when the next video in que was remotely relevant to your query or previously played video. Now you could be watching a documentary and two videos later they are shoveling some completely irrelevant shit at you.
Then they started vpn blocking. 95℅ of the time I cant even play a video. Or it plays for a minute then errors out with "something went wrong".
For years yt-dlp saved my ass when I needed a video. Now works about 10% of the time.
Curate your watch history!
My YT feed is basically 80% I like, if I watch a video outside of my normal interests, I'll get rid of it from my watch history.
My feed is very focused on infrastructure, computers, weird history videos and stuff like that.
While they were younger the kids only had access to YouTube on the main TV. You can't underestimate the need to review and prune the watch history to keep it on track.
Interestingly I've noticed the recommendations tend to change depending on the time of day with more stuff appearing that grabs the whole families interest in the evenings when we are likely watching together or with one of the adults in charge of the remote.