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Alternative for YouTube recommendations? (feddit.nu)

submitted 1 day ago by Hund@feddit.nu to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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I have an old Google account that I only use for one specific thing today: YouTube recommendations.

Their algorithm is actually decent. Which is not something I hear myself very often. And while it can be a trap, it does actually recommend me a fair bit of high quality content as long as I stay away from the obvious traps, make sure to block channels I don't like, and use the feature "not interested" on videos that I don't like.

However. I would like to only use my web feed client and no Google account at all, but I would then miss out on the recommended videos.

Is there some privacy respecting alternative to this that I'm not aware of?

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[–] molasses6469@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Why is no one mentioning Flow? It is literally built to be exactly what you want. It has a local, no-Google-account required recommendation engine.

[–] Hund@feddit.nu 1 points 17 hours ago

Thanks! It looks to be limited to phones only, but it seems like, technically speaking, the best option.