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?
Maybe invidious or use freetube.
There is also grayjay, and while it works pretty fine I believe there where some controversies around the program even tho I don’t know the reason.
The controversy is that the code is not fully open source, but it was originally labeled as FOSS.
Doesn’t those work like Piped, that you get recommendations based on the current video your viewing?
I was talking about the general recommendations that you get based on what you watch over time. :)
I understand, in Grayjay that is working as far as I know. It shows me videos based on my previously watched content. So that should work.