I have an extension that can individually disable all the most useless/addicting components of the Youtube site, such as shorts and whatnot. On the search page, I have turned on:

hide Shorts

hide For You

hide Trending

hide ‘People Also Searched For’

hide Search Categories

hide Promoted Videos

hide Promoted Websites

hide Suggested Products

Do you know what Youtube has started doing? They are now inserting engagement slop DIRECTLY into the search results, as seen in the image above. It’s literally a short, yet it’s inserted like a video so you’re forced to see it. The only possible way to remove it is by using a privacy frontend, as even on incognito mode, Youtube will look at the three videos you’ve watched and start inserting shit based off that.

Louis Rossman is right, they all have rapist mentalities… “just let me stick it in”

  • octopus_inkEnglish
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    8 months ago

    This is a weird response to me.

    This is the way. And I might add, Unix desktop.

    Sure man, rock on. ✊

    Let’s not start bikeshedding between FOSS Unix distributions out of dogmatic reasons (I’m sure you didn’t mean to specifically single out “Linux” here

    Eh… OP seems to be talking about their own setup. They probably “singled out” Linux because it’s what they use.

    I wish we would stop opposing “Linux” and other Unixes like BSD, Illumos, etc).

    I oppose none of those things, but Linux isn’t Unix.

    (Usually the Unix folks are the ones at pains to point that out.)