How can I get Lemmy to stop all the political stuff
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I had to clear my history because all I was getting was jujutsu kaisen and none of my subscription stuff was coming through.
There is a subscription page! I had no idea for years that in addition to the home page (which is a mix of subscription and algorithm videos) there's a subscription page which only lists videos from channels you're subscribed to, in order of recency.
I use it now quite a bit. And I've been subscribing more. Before I fell down the jjk rabbit hole, I hadn't realized how mamy creators were being suggested that I'd never hit follow on, but would watch often.
I prefer a third party front end. Then you really only get what you want.
Downvote it when it comes onto your feed.
Turn off history. It makes the homepage blank, and you will only see your subscriptions. But, there are still recommendations in the side bar you will have to ignore.
Browsing YouTube on incognito does the same, I believe.
I'm not subscribed to anyone on youtube, but my feed is pretty good. Every time i see something i don't like or care i hit the three dots and choose: don't recommend channel, and then they slowly go away.
Some shit gets injected by region or time of day. I live in a red state and get obnoxious red state hobbys that I am either not interested in or only minorly interested in and the ads are even worse.
Get a chrome extension to block channels, ez pz
Stop clicking, interacting, hovering or looking at the thumbnail for too long. Clear your watch history. Search up lots of unrelated content that you enjoy, thumbs it up, subscribe to unrelated channels you like. It will stop doing that. Mine basically only shows video essays an, science, technology and gaming content
Don’t log in, clear your cache, use a vpn
Don't log in
Terrible advice, you deny yourself the best tool you have against this, curating your watch history.
clear your cache
Fair, if you absolutely refuse to create an account, then this is your only option.
use a vpn
I am an IT technician, and people need to cool it with yelling for other's to use a VPN constantly, a VPN service doesn't really add anything to your privacy, well, it adds another link in the chain that you need to trust, the only thing your should use a general VPN for is watching region locked content. If you want privacy, use TOR running in a VM.
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Delete Google, the apps are trash. If you want web based content go directly to the source. Highlights::Your Team Page, space videos::space website, political info::unbiased news sources, silly memes::giphy, etc. The Google algorithms are severely flawed as well as the algorithms of all generative content sites that collect your data.
Edit: I don't really have a full answer, but I hope that we can get the problem fixed with community-based video hosting, like the one linked above.
I mean I use newpipe and grayjay. So like only channels I sub to show up
This is the way
I don't understand why people don't turn off youtube watch history. I nuked my account about a year ago and have since made a new account with a burner email adress. Turned off all tracking and history for YouTube and all affiliate Google accounts and all the recommended videos are completely random shit. They're basically sidebar ads to me now, I dont even notice they're there. I want to watch a video - search it, watch it, thats it never see any other shit about.