DuckDuckGo has a “hide ai images” setting. It seems it also blocks these videos. I’m not getting any of those videos in your screenshot if I search on DDG.
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Kagi too. https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop
But YouTube is basically just a slop bucket.
Wh arts so good about kagi? I looked it up once and I saw a subscription and a focus on ai and I noped out.
The search itself is great and accurate. Kagi doesn't track you, show ads or manipulate search results to get you to buy something or because someone paid them to. You are their paying customer so they focus on making the service for you. You can actually manipulate the results to your needs by ranking (voting) domains up, down or completely blocking. Imagine search results without pinterest, quora or tiktok! There's a lot of other settings and pre-made or custom filters to search the areas of the Internet you want.
Kagi is not focused on AI, contrary to Google, Bing etc. AI is optional and it's not shoved in your face. You can chose to display quick AI summaries, hide them or have them appear if you finish your query with a question mark. Contrary to Google, Bing etc. these summaries are actually really good because they summarize (or give you an answer based on) search results and the search results are simply better the in the other search engines.
Couple of years ago I also noped out hearing I would need to pay for search. The truth is, with "free" search you're paying for it with your frustration, your private information that they mine, use and sell. Searching is getting worse and worse and they won't make it better because you're not even their customer, you're a sheep they shear to sell your wool to tailors so they can make cloths and sell them back to you. Maybe I drifted a bit with the metaphor but you know what I mean 🤣
Kagi lets you set up a free account without giving them your credit card. You get a small number of free searches that refill every month so you can try it for free. There are obviously Black Friday deals etc.
I also have this link that'll let you try Kagi Pro for 90 days for free. Somone posted it on Kagi subreddit, seems to be working still even though it's Thanksgiving promo.
That Kagi Linux browser they've been teasing for the last few months can't come out fast enough! I wrote this comment on Firefox+ublock btw
I'm very happy with Vivaldi. Works great with Kagi on Linux and Android and in the android version they recently introduced an option to configure custom engines (like Kagi) right in the app (previously you needed to add it on PC and sync to android).
But more options is always better.
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You can use uBlacklist with a list of AI websites to filter out a ton of crap in search results. It's good for blocking out AI slop websites but probably won't be too effective for individual YouTube videos.
Youtube is pretty much unusable now, more than half the videos are low effort Ai slop, and the rest is just irrelevant, leaving the real content buried deep down in the algorithm.
Edit: I forgot to mention that I don't use an YouTube account and haven't used for years for privacy reasons. I'm mostly speaking about using the search function without an account.
YouTube has a great algorithm, in that it mostly seems to show you stuff you actually want to watch, and let's you say you don't like stuff.
You can train it with a little effort to show you what you want.
You just can't make the shorts go away, even with premium!
You can on mobile with modified client and I belive there's browser extensions that remove shorts on pc
You can use uBO on shorts to make them dissappear.
For Android, 7 helieve revanced has an option for that.
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Used to be I'd scroll through the suggested videos, and find new content creators based on my interests.
Now? I don't trust clicking on a new unheard of youtuber channel. 90% of the time it's just AI crap.
Maybe it's just my algorithm but I don't think I've been presented any slop videos. Surely not long videos, right?
If you use it with an account and have watch history its really quite good at recommending relevant stuff.
I think it also depends on what you're searching for though, like if I search for a guide on changing fork seals on my motorcycle the results are pretty much fine.
I just use NewPipe and subscribe to my favorite channels. The algoslop tab remains unclicked.
To get YouTube to work you need to curate your watch history. Any video you regret watching should be deleted from history so that it won’t be used for recommendations.
If your history is filled with these bad videos then you’re better off wiping your history entirely. Then start from scratch watching only videos that really interest you and your recommendations will all be based on those.
Like the internet itself, there is a TON of great content on YouTube. The trouble is finding it! For me, the internet has been gradually reverting to the situation I remember from the mid-90s (before Google existed). There were lots of search engines but they were pretty much all bad. I relied a lot on word of mouth (and site-to-site links) to find things.
Stop using the algorithm. Take your existing known likes and go search them out for their collaborators. Search out creators not single videos on a topic.
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There is this blocklist:
Thank you !
Thank you very much!
I can advise anyone to install DeArrow.
Instead of having every thumbnail screaming at me, YouTube is now much calmer in general. Even the clickbait titles are replaced by crowdsourced alternatives.
No more "TOP 5 Reasons Why You SHOULD use/not use something ❌❌/✅✅", but "review of something" instead.
I have a different approach, for me the idiotic title is a red flag that I shouldn't watch the video in the first place. But for thumbnails it seems like the only way to survive on youtube is to make a youtube face in thumbnail pointing at something, even the respectable and interesting channels are doing it
YouTube made changes, and the YouTube reps who deal with creators have given them marching orders that they need to follow or else no money. Every one of the creators I sub has dedicated a video to how things have to be now, and they know we hate it, and they hate it. But there's nothing they can do because YouTube is their source of income.
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No. Ublock blocks elements, it does not look at the contents.
If there were something in the elements indicating it, it could, but that seems unlikely.
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Kagi has an LLM community register they automatically use to filter their results
before:2022 might work
Who is the target audience for that ? Who the fuck even neds instructions to verify a damn email address, much less a whole ass youtube video ?
People who have never been online before, people who don’t understand the meaning of the phrase (ESL etc), children
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“It seemed to me,” said Wonko the Sane, “that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.”
That really paints a dark future
I did not need the information in this video, but it's only a matter of time before helpful guides are overwhelmed with this shit
I wonder if sponsor skip's database can be repurposed to include ai slop publishers
Amazing idea
I forgot about this, DeArrow would work great for this.
If it cannot remove the video, it can at least replace slop video titles and thumbnails with a blank rectangle and an empty space character.
But how do I verify my email on Reddit?
It's a truly complicated task
Does that do anything beyond disabling DuckDuckGo's own AI answering box at the top? Because I still get AI generated results on sites.
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Ironically you need AI to detect AI output in the content offered to you and to block it. Though in theory some heuristics for the visuals in the thumbnails could work.
I don't see anything like this in search, even DuckDuck.
What do you have on that you see this? (Or what have I turned off?)
I do use Ublock and Noscript, but they don't list anything to block on search engines, really.
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