She’s almost 70, spend all day watching q-anon style of videos (but in Spanish) and every day she’s anguished about something new, last week was asking us to start digging a nuclear shelter because Russia was dropped a nuclear bomb over Ukraine. Before that she was begging us to install reinforced doors because the indigenous population were about to invade the cities and kill everyone with poisonous arrows. I have access to her YouTube account and I’m trying to unsubscribe and report the videos, but the reccomended videos keep feeding her more crazy shit.

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    1 year ago

    Switch her to FreeTube on desktop. Can still subscribe to keep a list of channels she likes, but won’t get the YouTube algorithm recommendations on the home page.

    For mobile something like newpipe for the same algorithm removed experience.

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      I love FreeTube but sometimes I just can’t get videos to play. Or they take forever to play because I have to pause for buffering. Still better than the actual site but still can be frustrating.