Iām using a stock Samsung Galaxy 8 phone right now (with Android 10) and I disabled the YouTube app. I was basically sick of its s***. Since then, I never sign in to the app/site, and so may aspects of using the site are much better now.
- Everything is faster, since they donāt know me / arenāt tracking as much.
- I always open YT in Firefox Focus, which doesnāt ever keep cookies or history each time I close it, so thereās no history for YT to mine each time I visit again.
- Iām pretty sure I see fewer ads since I donāt have a deep history for YT to mine / target.
- More random suggestions from YT means I am mostly broken out of the bubble caused by their tracking. I find new, interesting music, for instance, now, from the suggestions.
- Hitting ābackā in the browser means I go back wherever I was before, not to the YT home page (like the app used to do to me)
I still visit the site often, and appreciate all the good music and channels I watch, but now itās overall a much more positive experience, more like YT was a few years ago versus the horrible mess itās become recently.
Iād still appreciate any other tips anyone has for making YT visits even more enjoyable.
You might want to change the Piped backend instance in the settings. Google is currently trying to IP-ban all Piped servers, just find an instance that works well.
You need to click on the three dots, then select settings, go to āInstanceā and at the top you can hit āChooseā¦ā to change the Piped instance.
I havenāt experienced any issues with adminforge.de.
