• @[email protected]
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    421 hours ago

    YouTube patched via ReVanced, then browse without login.

    On desktop, YouTube with uBlock, then browse without login.

  • ByteMe
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    171 day ago

    I just use YouTube and only watch my subscribed channels. I don’t bother with recommendations

    • @[email protected]
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      219 hours ago

      I feel like we need to get away from Gulag’s servers in general tho. They’re closing in on the likes of Freetube.

    • @[email protected]
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      221 hours ago

      Seconded. You subscribe to channels you like, and your feed is just the newest videos first. Plus built in sponser block.

  • xigoi
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    21 hours ago

    Use the NewPipe app or one of its forks. It shows only videos from your subscriptions.

    • @BreadOven
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      This. It’s gone down for a few days here or there. But then updates and it’s all good. You can even watch shorts from the creators, although it’s like watching a short video (can’t scroll through them in succession as far as I know).

  • @[email protected]
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    101 day ago

    You can subscribe to youtube channels with rss, that way you don’t have to log in a d you have a chronological list of uploads of channels you’ve chosen.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      11 day ago

      Yeah, I thought of getting into grayjay instead, but the android app seems very unstable and slow for me, maybe I’ll try tweaking ReVanced for a similar result instead.

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        11 day ago

        You could just hide the home tab and default to the subscriptions. And I think you can also hide recomendations but Im not sure about that.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 day ago

    Grayjay on Android. Ad-free, no algo, and no shorts. There’s a section that shows you like the top 10 hottest videos on the platform, but in the subscriptions tab it has all the latest from who you are subbed to.

  • @[email protected]
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    -171 day ago

    There aren’t any because all ways of displaying any data at all involve an “algorithm”. There are no “algorithm-free alternatives” to anything at all except not using computers at all.

    Maybe think about what you’re actually trying to ask, then ask that question again.

    • Kane
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      While you may be right, it’s irrelevant if you say it with such a tone. Additionally, it’s quite clear OP means predatory forms of algorithms.

      • @[email protected]
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        -91 day ago

        I suspect OP wanted to know about a video platform where they were not getting any automated recommendations that they hadn’t chosen to follow… my point is, chronological sorting is still an “algorithm”.

    • @BreadOven
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      With New pipe I only see the channels I subscribe to. There’s no home page, I just go to the list of channels and check if they have any new content.

      I don’t see how an algorithm comes into play when I’m manually subscribing and going through the list.