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Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others

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286 points saikatsg | 2 comments | 05 Sep 25 11:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.014s | source
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gsky ◴[05 Sep 25 13:11 UTC] No.45138141[source]▶
Good move. Hope all countries do block these apps.

Whenever i open YouTube in private tab all default recommendations are garbage. vulgar and sexist videos. its worse than garbage. Just imagine how many teens lives are ruined

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karmakaze ◴[05 Sep 25 13:15 UTC] No.45138175[source]▶
That's odd. I get an empty page that has text "Try searching to get started."
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Taek ◴[05 Sep 25 13:58 UTC] No.45138676[source]▶
That's because you have history turned off. YouTube did this really weird thing where they refuse to give you algorithmic recommendations if you have history off, which includes refusing to let you watch more than a handful of shorts at a time.

As someone who has been addicted to the youtube feed for a long time, it was really refreshing to have a button that basically meant I could only watch videos I knew to search for.

I think they are trying really hard to pressure you into turning history back on, but I'm much happier as a person now that I'm not having videos and clickbait rammed down my throat.

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1. rpdillon ◴[05 Sep 25 14:27 UTC] No.45139019{3}[source]▶
In a private window, there is no account to check for "History is turned off". I don't think the root comment is accurate: at least in the US, I see an empty page when I visit YT in a private window.
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2. godshatter ◴[05 Sep 25 16:01 UTC] No.45140078[source]▶
That's what I see when I open YouTube for the first when I'm not logged in, too. I much, much, prefer this over their recommendation system. Although the first few sets of recommendations after your first few videos are actually useful.