Out of all the Anti-Chinese/Falun Gong Cult Youtube content, David Zhang is the most that has been shown in that Site, Why is this guy keep appearing on my feed man ?!
comrade invidio.us is here to protect you from personalized YouTube feeds
There is also an extension called unhook that hides YouTube’s terrible UI components like the front page, the recommended feed. Sadly the extension is not open source. I wonder if there is a foss extension like that.
My recommendation in general is to not use YouTube’s algorithm’s at all. If you YouTube, it’s impossible to not feed it as you watch videos, but don’t let it recommend videos to you. Thankfully because of all sorts of social media it is easy to find videos without having to rely on YouTube’s algorithm. Doing this will not only help you avoid shit videos but also dissuade you from mindless binge watching which I find destroys my last few remaining brain cells.
On phone I only ever use NewPipe/Tubular to watch YouTube videos.
Yeah,YouTube, Facebook, Instagram; they’ve all become captured cesspits.
Something I’ve noticed is that if you try to have a leftist comm on any platform besides for ones like these you get descended upon by a horde of reactionaries with enough lead in their blood to arm a war.
if you disable view history, they remove the front page, which is a win imo.
also I’ve seen people from multiple countries complaining about similar things, getting recommendations from far right media even tho they are lefties, I’ve watching mostly left content since 2021, now and then i get recommended far right outlet and personalities even after blocking then, while channels that i subscribe don’t send notifications.
yt and any other imperialist monopoly were always like that, but ot has gotten considerably worse lately, so something important is happening and we are not seeing it.
If you click/tap on the three dots next to one of his videos, one of the options says “do not recommend channel” I suggest you click/tap on that
I use freetube on desktop and grayjay on mobile.
Greyjay will also read from multiple sources, like patreon and nebula, and now including Bilibili, which is interesting to see content from. I think they have like a dozen sources that they are compatible with now.
Both have had constant access to YouTube for over a year now. YouTube likes kicking off those third parties…
Freetube will fall back to invidious instance(s) if YouTube fails to load. So even if YouTube is messing with them, you get something. You can turn that off if it gives you trouble.
It’s a pain to manage my subscriptions across two different systems. But they both read and write to newpipe subscription streams, So I can export and import between them that way. Oh, and newpipe is another option for mobile. I’ve had problems with them, they tend to get blocked a lot. But I haven’t used them recently, they might be better now.
