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We need to talk about clickbait [video]

by smlckz on 8/17/21, 12:14 PM with 1 comments

• by jrmann100 on 8/17/21, 7:20 PM

  Derek does a great job of explaining how YouTube shifted away from a subscription-based feed to a recommendation-based one.

  Ironically, to combat the distractive/addictive tendencies this promotes, I use a browser extension[0] to hide recommendations and only browse my subscriptions feed.

  0: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/df-tube-distractio...