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Alternative for YouTube recommendations? (feddit.nu)
submitted 1 month ago by Hund@feddit.nu to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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I have an old Google account that I only use for one specific thing today: YouTube recommendations.

Their algorithm is actually decent. Which is not something I hear myself very often. And while it can be a trap, it does actually recommend me a fair bit of high quality content as long as I stay away from the obvious traps, make sure to block channels I don't like, and use the feature "not interested" on videos that I don't like.

However. I would like to only use my web feed client and no Google account at all, but I would then miss out on the recommended videos.

Is there some privacy respecting alternative to this that I'm not aware of?

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[–] Freakazoid@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Maybe invidious or use freetube.

There is also grayjay, and while it works pretty fine I believe there where some controversies around the program even tho I don't know the reason.

[–] Hund@feddit.nu 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doesn't those work like Piped, that you get recommendations based on the current video your viewing?

I was talking about the general recommendations that you get based on what you watch over time. :)

[–] Freakazoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I understand, in Grayjay that is working as far as I know. It shows me videos based on my previously watched content. So that should work.

[–] Hund@feddit.nu 1 points 1 month ago

Cool. I'll check it out!

[–] Hund@feddit.nu 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks! I'll look into them and the controversy.

[–] dannitien@piefed.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The controversy is that the code is not fully open source, but it was originally labeled as FOSS.

[–] Hund@feddit.nu 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh! That is a no go for me then. I only use open source software.

[–] dannitien@piefed.world 1 points 1 month ago

You can still look at most of the code, but yes, that's an issue for people who want to stay 100% FOSS.