I have an old Google account that I only use for one specific thing today: YouTube recommendations.

Their algorithm is actually decent. Which is not something I hear myself very often. And while it can be a trap, it does actually recommend me a fair bit of high quality content as long as I stay away from the obvious traps, make sure to block channels I don’t like, and use the feature “not interested” on videos that I don’t like.

However. I would like to only use my web feed client and no Google account at all, but I would then miss out on the recommended videos.

Is there some privacy respecting alternative to this that I’m not aware of?

  • molasses6469@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Why is no one mentioning Flow? It is literally built to be exactly what you want. It has a local, no-Google-account required recommendation engine.

    • Hund@feddit.nuOP
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      2 days ago

      Thanks! It looks to be limited to phones only, but it seems like, technically speaking, the best option.