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what it's actually used for: youtube videos that would instantly turn your suggestions into a cesspool if you were logged in, e.g. firearms, military vehicles, the word "degreasing"

The Kinsie @Kinsie2/22/2023, 2:00 PM

what it's actually used for: evading the paywall filter on a major news site that only lets you view like two and a half articles for free every month, when i'm on my phone and can't just use browser extensions for evil

Techokami @techokami2/23/2023, 1:08 AM

[laughs in Android with Firefox and actual-ass browser extensions on my phone]

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gotyaoi @gotyaoi2/20/2023, 6:31 PM

touching linkedin in any form.

Scary New Boyfriend @cowboy-dreams2/20/2023, 6:33 PM

that's why I always use invidious as my youtube front end. No more of all that marketing spyware crap please

DarkOverord @DarkOverord2/20/2023, 6:47 PM

Any time I need to look up a specific tech thing that I can't find as a text guide? In to incognito it goes 'cus there's no guarantee I'll remember to delete it out of my YT history :B

Nadia Rain Chassis @softchassis2/20/2023, 6:52 PM

I got linked a South Park clip and I clicked it without knowing what it was and even after deleting it from my watch history I'm still getting recommended South Park clips. Awful website

Adra The Ghost @adra-the-ghost2/20/2023, 7:08 PM

Atheism videos, Seeing just how bad the reactionary video was. any kind of drama video. So many uses for incognito mode

Plum @plumpan2/20/2023, 8:12 PM

I've quiet enjoyed using RSS instead of a youtube account and having cookies 100% blocked on the site. It makes searches a bit more tolerable, and also makes it glaringly obvious how aggro youtube is about sucking people in to various unhealthy topics. Once you get past any useful search results it's just the WORST crap, absolute "made from the butthole" material.

hanky code enforcement @bootjack2/20/2023, 8:20 PM

really, really fringe bigfoot videos

not just 'i done saw a big monke man in the woods' but 'sasquatch and his family manifested in my house from another dimension to look at my paintings while i was asleep (he said my paintings were cool)' fringe

Penny @pixelatedpenny2/20/2023, 10:55 PM

I'd watch those unfiltered. Youtube, show me more like this.

hanky code enforcement @bootjack2/20/2023, 11:19 PM

here you go! as a warning, your recommendations are about to be filled with flat earth-adjacent bullshit if you watch this without private browsing

@lexi2/20/2023, 8:27 PM

i just use it for testing websites without having to clear my cookies lol

hk @hindsightee2/20/2023, 8:37 PM

watching any kind of fandom's videos because my youtube main page will be chock full of those for a month. it's not that it will be a cesspool but i have only so much patience for "Bocchi The Rock crack pt 5"

giwake @giwake2/20/2023, 8:42 PM

"the word "degreasing""

ulillillia is that you

Riley Cube @rileycube2/20/2023, 9:15 PM

putting my browser into incognito mode to search "meat trick"

SGTCharlynne @SGTCharlynne2/20/2023, 9:16 PM

I don't ever use the recommendations feature, so the "DF Tube" has been very helpful for removing that section and the home page. I've only used subscriptions.

smoking 𒋆𒄣𒌦𒈾𒁍 with 'ilu @jake22/20/2023, 9:24 PM

the worst part is that it doesn't even flood you with firearm videos, since those are algorithm-suppressed, so instead it floods you with what it assumes firearms fans want to watch other than firearms, which is usually fascism

pastell @pastellexists2/20/2023, 9:48 PM

oh yeah i had to use incognito to see some amateur ukraine war reporting without turning my homepage into fascism land

Krowbird @Krowbird2/21/2023, 2:59 AM

I have never felt more seen.

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