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Comment by xnickb

1 year ago

Might as well just download videos and watch them later.

The one thing you lose I guess is discovery, but the algorithm is so volatile that maybe that's not the worst thing in the world.

  • Yeah, i've used tampermonkey and various other scripts to remove all discovery/suggestions from youtube, and I've never regretted it. It's great. But that's just my personal style, if you sit down and watch it like TV then I can see how that would be a sacrifice.

    • I don't, but I like the recommendations on the home screen to find stuff I might like...again though, like 75% of the time, I don't.

This is actually what I do most of the time. I feel like that anecdote of RMS where he says he wgets web pages and e-mails them to himself.