loxoCan't watch any YouTube videos anymore, what do I do now?
Don’t log in to watch youtube. You’re not one of those…(spits) youtube commenters, are you? Use 3rd party frontends for your subscriptions. Some don’t even need a google account.
gilaAny suggestions for 3rd party frontends which recommend videos algorithmically like when you’re logged in?
I don’t think there is any. That’s the “con” of not being tracked with no personalization.
DeebsterThere must be a frontend that can track your watched stuff (ideally across several platforms) and so some kind of recommendation - even as simple as you’ve watched 100% of these videos so we’ll show you this new one first.
You would need
I could put something like that together, but it’d take a lot of people and a lot of work, and we’d probably have to pay for it either with advertising or by charging a fee for users who don’t want ads.
I think 1. could just be based on your subscriptions, and 2. isn’t necessary. It doesn’t have to be so personalised, just give me some discoverability for videos with outlying view vectors within the metadata topics for my subscriptions. Wouldn’t be as personalised as YT algorithm, but neither is that a very good one anyway. Still better than just using subscription page, IMO.