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Are there any privacy friendly YouTube frontends (web or desktop) that has any sort of personal recommendation system? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 10 months ago by driveway@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I know some people praise the lack of an algorithm because it makes them spend less time on YouTube but I don't have that problem anyway. Almost all videos I've watched on YouTube. I found through the homepage. The lack of it makes the alternatives useless for me. I'd even maybe be fine with something that takes all the watch next recommendations of the videos in the subscriptions page and jumbles them together as "recommendations".

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[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have not found one that isn't having performance issues. On Fdroid there is LibreTube. I think it might be worth while just opening a separate YouTube account to just watch there (mostly if you care about commenting). I wonder if instead of having a front end it might be worth while to just have a plug in that keeps bookmarks on the channels you are subbed and a number on new videos added that month.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Freetube has been working great for me on Mac and it has channel “subscriptions” without an account