# YouTube? More like NoTube

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/youtube-more-like-notube/13747
**Category:** General
**Tags:** website
**Created:** 2023-08-25T07:02:47Z
**Posts:** 7

## Post 1 by @root — 2023-08-25T07:02:48Z

I checked my YT for the first time in about 2 years. I have no idea what they were thinking, or if this was even sent to triage before it was pushed to production. I don’t want to call their entire developer team morons, but you decide for yourself:

**Homepage with modal:**

 ![3](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/0/0c8c0e090c685af1341d69aeacd4e2e8444fb992.png)

**Dismissible?**

 ![image](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/b/b8aa6fdb4d2eb8ba0710963396bcb494c41f0d10.png)

**Homepage without modal (deleted the node using browser console):**

 ![image](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/e/e06c2dbe9028a872e86eb75769883710ff7e480b.png)

So, yeah, No tube for You. This stinks, and I’m going to complain everywhere. before you ask, yes, I downgraded to Medium Mode using uBO to noop the website temporarily - still not good.

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## Post 2 by @Anon — 2023-08-25T09:32:54Z

Use a privacy frontend, the official site [YouTube.com](http://YouTube.com) is very invasive

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## Post 3 by @anon39565454 — 2023-08-25T09:40:53Z

So here’s how you “fix” it

1. Enable watch history
2. Watch a single video, any would do
3. Disable watch history again

That should fix it for now

But honestly I’d recommend just migrating to something like newpipe

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## Post 4 by @V.R — 2023-08-31T06:23:55Z

They intentionally no longer want to show you recommendations if you have watch history disabled and have announced as such.

I don’t care for YT’s recommendations, so I welcome it.

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## Post 5 by @93nVE — 2023-09-12T11:47:25Z

Their recommendations are garbage anyway. They can’t even develop an useful algorithm. Now I mostly watch YouTube videos through my searches.

On Phone NewPipe is good app if you want to subscribe to channels without an account.

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## Post 6 by @lepras — 2023-09-13T04:00:11Z

Youtube algo is by far the best and I myself use newpipe, the more videos like this page under a video is pretty useful.

I have this strategy of finding new channels:

1. search reddit for recommendations for a particular interest
2. watch those videos, skim through the more videos like this
3. add those channels too
4. backup the subscriptions for safe keeping

just create a “fake” google account with voip number and a proxy and you are golden ngl.

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## Post 7 by @masdonte — 2023-09-14T08:38:21Z

Just use LibreTube, you don’t need an account, it’s totaly FOSS, privacy-friendly, use piped api, you can download videos, it has material you and the UI/UX is splendid. Just forget newpipe and use piped !