One source: https://www.advocate.com/business/youtube-scraps-gender-identity-protection

At least I'd hope so since I'm served up this AI generated garbage 100 times a day on this platform...

This is becoming beyond infuriating. This App is broken. I just pray someone can create an alternative to Youtube.

I've been using YT in my browser a lot lately, usually to listen to songs I already have many times or see the latest vids from my favorite channels. But for some STUPID reason, YT insists on shoving random videos with under 1,000 views a few slots down for the top on every single video sidebar, and I'm beyond fed up with it.

These have nothing to do with my interests or anything I've clicked on before, and they're usually either AI garbage or low-quality gaming videos from kids with crappy mics. No amount of "not interested" or "don't recommend channel" is enough to get rid of them, as every new vid I click comes with a new one to the right. At some point last year, the braindead algorithm started forcing such vids into everyone's sidebars on desktop whether the vids were good picks for them or not, and I know it's not just a me thing.

I guess it's kinda nice they're trying to help small channels for once, I've got one of my own after all. But shoving random crap into everyone's feeds whether they want it or not is something I want no part of. If anything, they're just making me resent these small channels I'd otherwise be indifferent to (except the AI ones, those can go to hell).

Obviously YT doesn't come with a way to turn them off, so TLDR, is there any up-to-date browser extension, Tampermonkey script, or ANYTHING that can purge these pests from my feed?

(Note that I do NOT wish to hide the sidebar entirely as it's useful for finding stuff I do want to see/hear. Just the low-view vids.)

I would like to see Small Brained American go to Nepal and see if he likes it or hates it. He hated India overall but I wonder will he love Nepal or will he also hate it like India.

I recently had an interesting discussion with someone in YouTube comments section. However, the AI censorship is making it so that most of my comments aren't appearing. There's no private messaging feature on YouTube anymore, so without any other recourse I decided to ask that person in comments section about sharing username (if comfortable with it) so I could add as friend on a board game website and play some games. However, YouTube isn't allowing such comments to get through. Their censorship is very user-unfriendly and I need some kind of workaround. Any advice?

You can't

Uhhhh… no thank you?

I very much enjoy long-form content (essays, reports, opinions, breakdowns) on basically any topic, as long as the channel is good enough, and presents in an interesting way. So I'm looking for new channels similar in style and quality to:

• Folding Ideas
• Philosophy Tube
• BobbyBrocolli
• Matt Orchard: Crime and Society (& JCS)
• Hbomberguy
• Tom Scott
• Super Eyepatch Wolf
• Matthewmatosis
• LEMMINO
• Lindybeige
• Joseph Anderson
• CGP Grey
• Legal Eagle ...

Do you have any reccomendations? Please and thank you :)

Does anyone know why? And how can I fix this? Thank you

To get back to the full player you have to tap it twice to expand it and then tap again. I didn't even know they updated that at first I thought the miniplayer was just not working and I kept closing and reopening the video until I accidentally tapped it twice.

So when using smarttube on my Shield, the autogenerated subtitles are shown normally like any other subtitle would be shown. Center, at the bottom and 1 or 2 lines at the time.

But on any browser i use on my PC, Chrome, Brave, Firefox, Edge, with enhancer enabled as extension, even disabled. The subtiles are shown like if its was being typed during the person talking in the video.

Is there a way / extension to have it the same way as in smarttube?

for some reason now, the YouTube app will fade to black before playing an ad, and then once the as is finished it will play the last 2 seconds or so of the video I was watching before the ad, like a TV show doing a recap, but the ads are only like 5 seconds long anyway so what's even the point, does YouTube think I'm an idiot with such a low attention span that I can't remember 5 seconds ago? also I feel like I've been getting alot more ads recently, like alot more? regardless of the videos, has anyone else noticed any of this or just me? for context I am on android so it might not be there on iphone.

When I click on a video it goes black and doesn't load

I deleted and reinstalled YouTube

I'm premium, but I run adblock anyways for edge cases, but turning it off did not fix the bug. It seems to be Vivaldi specific, because I didn't get the bug in Edge. Anyone possibly know of a vivaldi specific fix?

Theres a channel that I like called Carnage count and she makes videos about counting kills in movies and tv shows but I’m not calling out her but I calling out someone . In Her newest video 3 weeks ago There a bunch of comments by a channel with no videos called Fernando Y he comments 38 times on this video and the almost every comment says that he wants To cover a tv show that I never heard called D.N Ace Which it’s a Canadian animated show. Even though carnage says she ain’t going to cover it he is still commenting about It and it’s really annoying.

I cannot find this movie for the life of me. It is also known as “The YouTube Movie”

I have a question for YT experts.

I just opened YT Premium and I wanna be able to set up videos for my kids to watch from my device on their child restricted accounts so they can watch on their devices on like a playlist but at the same time I wanna make my own playlist as well so I can stream on my TV. Can you tell me how to set it up?

for example the url : v=5efeihf84I3EfY

(above is made up) but every video has one.

Thing is, non private and public videos (and ones around for years) that have been deleted, you'd think there is some metadata. and of course internet archive is useless..

So how do find out? because it's getting annoying when i have a window and some tabs and theres no title on it, and i have no idea what it could have been..

Mr beast gots slaves, I want some too 🥹