Good move. Hope all countries do block these apps.

Whenever i open YouTube in private tab all default recommendations are garbage. vulgar and sexist videos. its worse than garbage. Just imagine how many teens lives are ruined

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karmakaze 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

That's odd. I get an empty page that has text "Try searching to get started."

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Taek 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

That's because you have history turned off. YouTube did this really weird thing where they refuse to give you algorithmic recommendations if you have history off, which includes refusing to let you watch more than a handful of shorts at a time.

As someone who has been addicted to the youtube feed for a long time, it was really refreshing to have a button that basically meant I could only watch videos I knew to search for.

I think they are trying really hard to pressure you into turning history back on, but I'm much happier as a person now that I'm not having videos and clickbait rammed down my throat.

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rpdillon 5 days ago | parent [-]

In a private window, there is no account to check for "History is turned off". I don't think the root comment is accurate: at least in the US, I see an empty page when I visit YT in a private window.

	▲	godshatter 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		That's what I see when I open YouTube for the first when I'm not logged in, too. I much, much, prefer this over their recommendation system. Although the first few sets of recommendations after your first few videos are actually useful.

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gsky 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Even worse they are only showing garbage to third world countries since no one dares to question American companies.

Try firefox desktop.

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haakon 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can block YouTube for yourself on your own, it's not difficult. You don't have to depend on the state to do it for you.

	▲	gsky 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I use third party apps. My cry was for non tech people

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jongjong 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Agreed. It would be in the interest of citizens of most countries to block these apps. IMO, any company which is present in a country must be beneficial to the average citizen of that country. If a company is not beneficial to the average citizen, then it should be banned.

I think the biggest issue with these apps is that they monopolize attention away from local products and local jobs. They destroy national economies. Each country must have their own search engines and their own social media companies.