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Roses are red
Challenger was a disaster
The children can run
But big bird is fasterJust usual stuff that probably fits 80% of Lemmy users
Great taste
Alternate History Hub is one of my faves. Definite green flag.
Man I love his style of presentation and humor. His brother Tyler (Knowledgehusk) is pretty good too (although completely different genre of content).
No red flags here, my feed is totally fine and normal.
you ain’t got shit on me
Run of the mill nerd shit
I should not have opened it on work time. Youtube has got my number for sure.
Heh, I already watched the bottom one.
What does it say about me that I never log into youtube and thus have lots of rightwing political videos in my recommendations that I literally never click (I’m not clicking leftwing wing videos either, I don’t like consuming that kind of content in video form)?
Now that I think about it, most people would probably already be weirded out that to get to YouTube I’d pull up Firefox, type “youtube.de” (.de because I’m German) into the URL field, and then not log in because I don’t use YouTube with an account. I rarely use YouTube on my phone, but when I do I’m certainly not watching ads …
Same. But FYI youtube still customizes ads based on cookies saved since you last cleared them, even if you don’t log in.
Same same. This is why I use YouTube only through Firefox Focus or DuckDuckGo on mobile.
Any videos I want to watch later, I’ll save the URL in a note app. On the PC, any videos I want to keep in history, I open up a Firefox container specifically for whichever genre of recommendations I want from it.
There’s some alternative apps like grayjay, newpipe (think it might got renamed to libretube), revanced
revanced
Just tell them you don’t have a YouTube account, so you don’t have personalised recommendations.
That’s exactly the point they are making.
As far as most ‘normal’ people are concerned it is incredibly weird to not have a youtube account, and just as weird to be doing it in the browser instead of using an app.
So for those people you’ve already demonstrated huge “weirdo” red flags by not being like everyone else.
At that point you have to lean in and talk about peertube or sponsor block or whatever, and just hope they’re into it.
This seems pretty unlikely. She’s probably checking to see if OP is a Tater Tot, or whatever flavor of right wing asshole.
Most normal people wouldn’t care at all that someone doesn’t have a YouTube account.
None of that is as unusual as you think, both not having the app or an account.
I can’t run videos in the background or use ublock or sponsor block in the app. The app is super ass. So I guess I proved your point there.
Right. uBlock is perhaps becoming more common, but people who run sponsor block are already moving way out of the category of ‘average user’
When you’re a nerd yourself, and your friends are nerds, and you move in nerdy circles like most of us here on Lemmy it’s pretty easy to get a distorted idea of what the actual average user looks like, as opposed to the average within your group.
Yeah I guess that’s true.
I always use an invidious instance, so sometimes it’s whatever’s popular in Japan. Sometimes it’s all Spanish.
It’s fine, I didn’t want anybody significantly younger than me anyways.
I feel like this only makes sense for people who main youtube.
I only use it when i need a guide for a video game (because everything is a god damn video these days) or when my kids want to listen to a specific song as i do not pay for youtube premium.
My recommendations are all for kpop demon hunters and games i havent played in months.
I feel like someone wanting to see my youtube recommendations to search for red flags is a red flag in itself.
My recommendations are all for kpop demon hunters and games i havent played in months.
Then you pass the check; they’re looking for shit like Andrew Tate or Charlie Squirt
Andy Tits
I only use it when i need a guide for a video game (because everything is a god damn video these days)
I prefer text guides or image guides, too, but some stuff is really hard to represent well in text or image, e.g. convoluted level paths.
Joke’s on her, we’re not watching YouTube, this is a Linux installation party
I wonder what they would thinkIt’ll have to be my subscription list because I don’t have recommendations.
I turned off my YouTube history and now it just gives me a blank homepage with some vaguely threatening message claiming I won’t have any recommendations until I turn it back on. Joke’s on them, I’ve been trying to get YouTube to clear the junk off my homepage for years.
Back in the day (almost a decade ago), I would spend my free time telling every video that popped up on my homepage to not recommend that channel to me. After doing this for a few months, my homepage suddenly showed up blank! No recommendations, nothing. I took a screenshot of it at the time because I couldn’t believe that my homepage was finally clean.
I enjoyed my clean homepage for almost a year, until they revamped the site and everything came back.
I think it was sometime in the last year or two, they changed their homepage again and I started getting a blank screen with a notice, saying I needed to turn on history to get my recommendations back. No thanks, you just gave me exactly what I wanted!
Their recommendations were never anything I was interested in watching anyway. I’d click on a single news video about a local accident and then all I’d get in my feed is disaster compilation videos or something.
That’s why I have subscriptions; everything I want to watch is in my subscription list and I learn about new channels from friends. I don’t need a faulty algorithm to suggest content to me.
When’s the wedding?
That video was just recommended to me.
Carburetor disassembly and sports clips, what color flag is being a total stereotype?
So… that a red flag or not?
It’s such a green flag that the girl he was talking to got pregnant on the spot. It was an immaculate birdception.
