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by itopaloglu83 807 days ago
I wish YouTube had a premium feature called the focus mode where we can just watch our subscriptions with no hassle.
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I use New Pipe for this. Also no ads.
Nice. Good for you. Unfortunately, It’s for Android only.

https://newpipe.net/

+1

Also wish YouTube would copy X/Twitter where you get two toggle options:

1) For you (algo recommendations)

2) Directly following

You would ideally use directly following on the days where you’re time crunched.

As a sub-par solution; I completely turned off history on my main account, which also turns off recommendations.

I also created a secondary “channel” under my main account that I watch certain topics only. It’s quite a hassle but kind of works.

Although I hope something similar will exist, I do believe the push towards promoting bullshit and shallow content is too strong
You’re right and that push for shallow content just frustrates me. I wish at least they took my subscription fee and distributed to the channels and videos I watched.