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YouTube is reportedly slowing down videos for Firefox users
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This is a plus for me. I don't want them to recommend me anything. I don't trust them not to recommend me stuff that's going to piss me off.
Their recommendations engine seems to stuck on "50 more of exactly the last thing you watched, plus a dash of right-wing conspiracy nonsense."
Once I made the mistake of looking up how to change the oil on my Kawasaki Vulcan without being in incognito. Now half of my recommendations are how to perform maintenance on motorcycles that I'll never own. And ads for Harley Davidson. A company whose business model is converting gasoline into noise.
I just use youtube-dl now and have it go to my NAS. It's not easier then going to the website, per se. But now the video lives on my storage and it won't go away after a corporation's billionth DMCA claim that hour.
Genuinely wish I had done this a decade ago on my favorite articles. Link rot is getting worse and worse and YouTube is the absolute worst.
Turns out when you stop using it the recommendations become more and more unhinged and take on a slight pleading tone.
It's weird and kinda satisfying to watch, honestly.