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I enjoy paying and watching Youtube Premium on my TV (through a sideloaded app), but whenever I …

I enjoy paying and watching Youtube Premium on my TV (through a sideloaded app), but whenever I open the official app on my iPad, I am bombarded with Shorts, every search I make returns clickbait, unrelated content among the real results and that annoys me so much I keep thinking I should stop giving Youtube any money. Google, the bloody search engine company, keeps making sure that every search I make about video game videos, returns totally unrelated clips about very sexualised Twitch streamers ("how is this allowed on Twitch??" with some very prominent cleavage in the thumbnail), or any other thirst bait that has nothing to do with what I have been looking for. Funnily enough, they don't even let you choose "don't recommend this channel" for these results. I tried clearing my watch history, disliking the video, reporting them, Google doesn't fucking care. They are force-fed to you, hoping every single time you click on it. Honestly I just wish that company burns to the ground. Literally making their platform as shitty as possible to increase their bottom line. …

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tracker1HN

I wish that Rubble or others worried nearly as well. Also a TV user (NVidia Shield TV) and it seems every other time I check Rumble I have to sign in again. The recommendations are garbage and half the content feed is just noise. I'd really like something similar but not so heavy handed as YouTube gets on suggestions and content filtering. I've also tried a few also ran video services and none haber been even as good as rumble as bad as their TV app is.

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phatfishHN

Yup, I'm not sure how anyone uses the standard YouTube app. Even with adverts removed you get bombarded by shorts and nonsense clickbait/disinformation. I use it currently with a patched Revanced apk which is not logged in (in case Google suddenly take to banning accounts) and some UX tweaks like blocking shorts. For the couple of channels I actually would like to support in some way I stomach using the official app and give them some ad impressions.

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danpalmerHN

How much do you use YouTube? Because as a fairly substantial user, this doesn't match my experience at all. When I wasn't watching Shorts they were present but not in-your-face. Search pretty much always returns exactly what I'm looking for, there's no clickbait except for the low level of clickbait that the channels I like use... I pay not to have ads, but that's about it. Honestly, I really enjoy it. The app could be a little more iOS-ified, but that's a minor gripe. I wonder if you're just a sufficiently light user that it's not learning your preferences, or, I wonder if much of the personalisation comes from client-side event logging which, by using a third party app, you're skipping, meaning that in many ways your profile is missing data.

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mobilemidgetHN

Besides the regular gaming content on twitch there is a bunch of weird stuff. I noticed there is this ASMR type content where people lick plastic ears in front of a microphone. The amount of views they get, concurrent streams was mind boggling for me. But regarding 'sexy' content they recently made some policy updates, they initially hammered down on such content, but I think it hurted their income stream. https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Updating-our-Approach-to-...

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