alt Hacker NewsIt really amazes how how Youtube refuses to let me hide stuff I don't want to see on my homepage. I still long for the ability to tell them to not give me mix playlists, I do not want them, and often they annoy me when the first song is one I'd click on but I don't want to have to pay attention enough to kill it before the next song plays (since you cannot disable play next in playlists...)
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If you have uBlock Origin installed, the subreddit wiki for it has lots of options for blocking stuff on YouTube.
https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/youtube
You see, you think you don't want all those things, but the algorithm knows better. Trust the algorithm!
I so hate the videos YouTube shows me that I wrote a plugin to place a white box over videos called TubeGate [0], which I open-sourced [1]. It does keyword-based filtering so you can tell it to hide "sports", "politics", etc.
[0]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tubegate/aokfpmegea...
It's not a product where you are the user. Your attention is the product being sold to advertisers and the videos are a harvesting/production mechanism.
It is not in the interests of either YT or the advertisers to allow you to opt out of features that are proven to be lucrative for eyeballs.