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New comment by adishy in "Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed"

adishy — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:04:30 +0000

there's actually a great "hidden" way to disable the youtube homepage and shorts across platforms - turn off youtube's watch history feature (myactivity.google.com > youtube history)

I've found that over time this chokes the recommendation system - makes it boring and it now finally refuses to show me any video recommendations on my youtube homepage - just a message asking me to turn history on. of course, you lose your watch history, but I just bookmark the videos I like anyway.

Videos related to the one you're watching may appear, but imo these tend to be based on your subscriptions / more focused / less rabbit-holey (and you can disable those with extensions and such as well).

New comment by adishy in "The man who killed Google Search?"

adishy — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:05:51 +0000

Yes, and it's possible to turn off the AI / automated summary features if you don't like them as well.

New comment by adishy in "Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys"

adishy — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 02:08:14 +0000

Transfer learning on (cute) biological neural nets!

New comment by adishy in "Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron"

adishy — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 12:55:46 +0000

the windows key, in this context

New comment by adishy in "A look at what’s next for AI and Google Search [video]"

adishy — Thu, 11 May 2023 13:14:03 +0000

This is another addition to a whole slew of tech / "hip "marketing videos inspired by the format of Apple's "iPhone 7 event in 108 seconds - Don't Blink" ad. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jk6sz25OZgw&pp

I think the original was pretty interesting and worked in context, but doesn't work for every product.

New comment by adishy in "OpenAI's Foundry leaked pricing says a lot"

adishy — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 03:15:07 +0000

I see your subliminal "The Boys" reference :)

New comment by adishy in "Tell HN: YouTube has a spam problem, and it's getting worse"

adishy — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 03:06:14 +0000

I think a few of the other comments poke at this general idea, but I've come to be very intrigued by the meta-game of training these media recommendation engines (YouTube, Spotify, Netflix, TikTok?) by picking the right things to get a good feed. This sort of training is becoming more important than ever for a good experience in these platforms.

In my experience, YouTube seems to be one of the more reactive recommenders - especially if you go down rabbit-holes / dig deeper into certain types of topics. I have turned off both web history and Youtube watch history in my Google account and I find that the Youtube homepage very quickly devolves to lists of videos by channels I've subscribed to - a randomized subscription feed. I would really be interested in seeing recommendation behavior be quantified and documented in some systematic/objective way (if this is even possible).

New comment by adishy in "Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design"

adishy — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 18:33:19 +0000

I completely agree with your point but just wanted to note that iSH is available on the App Store (and hasn't been booted out as of now by some miracle) and love it to bits.

New comment by adishy in "How much is YouTube worth today?"

adishy — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 00:54:54 +0000

Brave browser blocks most, if not all YouTube ads, one of the main reasons it's my default browser on iOS

New comment by adishy in "Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests"

adishy — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 16:50:00 +0000

OT but if it helps you, Whatsapp does actually allow you to send messages to yourself (sort of)! You can create a Whatsapp group with you and one other person in it, and then remove them from the group. The result is a group with only you in it that you can use to send messages to yourself.

New comment by adishy in "Show HN: I made an extension to watch Netflix films with screenplays in sync"

adishy — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 21:04:56 +0000

not OP but I imagine from something like this https://www.imsdb.com

New comment by adishy in "I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?"

adishy — Sat, 23 May 2020 04:47:52 +0000

The Chrome reload gesture also gets in the way sometimes. It's especially infuriating when there's a link you want to click on the page (that's still loading), but additional content causes the content to scroll down as you're tapping the screen so Chrome misinterprets this as you wanting a page reload.