after a couple of days of this experiment I recommend this to everyone:
hide the comments and the sidebar in the video view on youtube, it makes the experience much less harmful

www.youtube.com###comments
www.youtube.com###secondary

Acabo de descubrir que si en uBlock Origin hacéis este filtro para Youtube ...

www.youtube.com###secondary

... se come la columna de la derecha donde van los vídeos relacionados. Que estoy cansado de estar viendo Quieto Todo El Mundo y que me salga PUTO FASCISMO al lado.

"Biblioteca del IAVA, reading room"

#reading #readingtime #room #oldpictures #history #books #library #librarylife #biblioteca #educacionsecundaria #liceo #secondary #secondaryschool #iava #montevideo #montevideophotos #uruguay #throwback #memories #memoriesforlife❤️ #fromthevault

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Mega Bazaar 2025. Well done… Secondary 2C. We did our best. Thank you everyone. 💜💜💜💜.

#MegaBazaar #SchoolEvent #EviksTreatery #Pink #Pastel #Teacher #Homeroom #Secondary #LebakBulus #Jakarta #Indonesia #Saturday #February #22nd #2025

#France to #rollout ‘#essential’ #genderequality and #consent #lessons in #schools.

The new #syllabus is set to be #rolledout after the #summer #holidays and will implement three #sexeducation #sessions per #year for #primary, #middle and #secondary #schools.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #EuropeanUnion #France #Education #Progress

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/27/france-gender-equality-consent-lessons-in-schools/

I've come to realize that YouTube suggestions are rather shit (I'm late to the party, I know) and the side bar where they live kinda sucks to be honest.

What I found out that just blocking the side bar actually makes the UX a lot better for me. I get just the video I want to watch, without the algorithm pushing me whatever the fuck it tries to push me. Sure this also removes the ability to discover what I might like to watch next, but... it's not really a bad thing now is it?

So just by adding this small filter to my uBlock Origin custom filters, I can now just watch the video I wanted to watch without the content that I did not come to watch trying to push themselves to my eyeballs.

Here's the filter to add:
'www.youtube.com###secondary'

So far I haven't found any downsides. This doesn't remove the "watch next" suggestions from the video player after the video is done of course, but that's fine, those are not there constantly so I can live with those.

And I know there's probably some site one can go to to view YouTube without other junk as well. That's fine, this isn't about those though, so no need to start listing them, thanks.

#secondary : of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.

- French: secondaire

- German: zweitrangig

- Italian: secondario

- Portuguese: secundário

- Spanish: secundario

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Perhaps this has already been done?

One thing that worries me about #mastodon is that your account is at the mercy of the administrator of the server you're on. I know you can migrate your account but the previous server I was on simply went off the air without a warning one day.

Maybe there should be (or is there already?) an option to mirror one's #account on a #secondary server so that if your main or 2nd server disappears you still have the other?

Does that exist?

If not, could it?