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PSA: Don't search cute animals on youtube. Your recommendations on the sidebar will have thumbnails of animals in distress for clicks.

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I fucked up my algo watching animal grooming and cute cat videos. Funny enough something I like to watch because it’s soothing has turned into something that ruins my day.

Kind of fucked that people are using animal abuse for clicks.

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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In order to use YouTube I need:

DF YouTube (Distraction Free) - no sidebar, no recommendations at the end of the video

Clickbait Remover for Youtube - thumbnails are a couple seconds into the video, titles are in all lower case

Hide shorts for Youtube™

ClearURLs - gets rid of tracking from URLs

Decentraleyes - I’m not positive but I’m pretty sure I need it

uBlockOrigin - ad blocker that you can also use to delete elements that it misses otherwise

SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships

Shit is fucking crazy, comrade

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fen [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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Unhook replaces the function of DF and Hide Shorts, in addition to a few more nice options for hiding algo-slop. would highly recommend it! also Dearrow, which was made by the developer of SponsorBlock. it does the same thing as Clickbait Remover, but with added customization and community submitted replacements.

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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Just installed them. Didn’t realize how much I was advertised to in the home page

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odmroz [he/him]@hexbear.net
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Omg ty for compiling this list, I need it so bad

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