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?
This video may be interesting to you: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=r5Y1I1Zol2k https://github.com/rosadiaznewyork/video-finder-algorithm
This gal doesn’t seem like the brightest bulb in the box, so there are probably better implementations out there. I saw several similar projects on GitHub.
I intend to look into the best way to implement something like this once I get my new NAS server and Tube Archivist up and running.