I have an extension that can individually disable all the most useless/addicting components of the Youtube site, such as shorts and whatnot. On the search page, I have turned on:
hide Shorts
hide For You
hide Trending
hide 'People Also Searched For'
hide Search Categories
hide Promoted Videos
hide Promoted Websites
hide Suggested Products
Do you know what Youtube has started doing? They are now inserting engagement slop DIRECTLY into the search results, as seen in the image above. It's literally a short, yet it's inserted like a video so you're forced to see it. The only possible way to remove it is by using a privacy frontend, as even on incognito mode, Youtube will look at the three videos you've watched and start inserting shit based off that.
Louis Rossman is right, they all have rapist mentalities... "just let me stick it in"
You guys still using youtube?
* 21 ALTERNATIVES TO YOUTUBE *
The Internet Archive https://archive.org offers over 1.8 million free movies and over 12 million free videos.
Here are more options. Most are browser-based. A couple require an app.
ODYSEE
https://odysee.com
VIDLII
https://www.vidlii.com/
INVIDIOUS
https://invidio.us
TIKTOK
https://tiktok.com
9GAG
https://9gag.com
BITCHUTE
https://www.bitchute.com
BILIBILI
https://www.bilibili.tv/en
RUMBLE
https://rumble.com
PEERTUBE
https://peertube.tv/videos/overview
NEWPIPE
https://newpipe.net
TWITCH
https://www.twitch.tv
TED TALKS
https://www.ted.com/talks
VIMEO
https://vimeo.com/
VEOH
https://veoh.com/
LBRY
https://lbry.com/
DAILYMOTION
https://www.dailymotion.com/us
UTREON / PLAYEUR
https://playeur.com/
THE OPEN VIDEO PROJECT
https://open-video.org/
STORYFIRE
https://storyfire.com/
DLIVE
https://dlive.tv/
#YouTube #Video #Videos
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TikTok as an alternative to YouTube because of ads and intrusive videos? That's just replacing one poison with a stronger poison.
also, i don't really consider tiktok an alternative
There are twenty alternatives in the list. Did you try any of them?
I added No. 21, DLIVE https://dlive.tv/
removedute
Lol TikTok
Thanks, hope peertube takes off
Alternative to using youtube? I bought a bike recently. Maybe try that.