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Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp

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319 points modmodmod | 2 comments | 15 Mar 25 15:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.415s | source
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new_user_final ◴[15 Mar 25 19:37 UTC] No.43374703[source]▶
tip: Disable YouTube history and go to subscription page for chronological ordered videos. No more "algorithmically curated" videos in YouTube home page.
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freehorse ◴[15 Mar 25 21:40 UTC] No.43375345[source]▶
Why disable youtube history? I have it enabled, and my subscription page works fine.
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1. new_user_final ◴[16 Mar 25 15:44 UTC] No.43379904[source]▶
Disabling YouTube history makes two additional changes: no more "algorithmically curated" videos in your YouTube homepage and no more YouTube Shorts rabbithole.
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2. freehorse ◴[16 Mar 25 21:12 UTC] No.43382365[source]▶
Right. This works against personalisation (and thus addictiveness I assume). I use an extension (unhook) that basically redirects youtube.com to youtube.com/feed/subscriptions, and hides any shorts, so I can keep my youtube history.