I am so tired of being part of the YT algo. Is there a somewhat decent alternative to youtube? I already have Nebula but that doesn’t give me my news and show talking head fix

  • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
    20·
    3 days ago

    Depending on your setup, YouTube will still fingerprint your browser and track your behavior, as is common practice with ad networks.

    Your cookies and data might be cleared but as long as yt has any way to generate a unique identifier out of your browser preferences, it will identify you and start looking at your behavior / figuring out an algorithm.

    Just fyi.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 days ago

      Sure, it can start building it again just with what I search to watch. Then I get to close the browser again and wipe it clean again. I know that fingerprinting exists, but I’m not seeing its behavior for video suggestions. In fact, I do see tracking by IP because I’ll get suggested things I know my wife is looking at (and we’re coming from the same IP). Even those are few and far between though.