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Comment by Cpoll | Hacker News Reader

I bookmark and use the subscriptions page to avoid the algorithmic recommendations. https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

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If you disable all youtube tracking, your homepage is just a message saying

“Your watch history is off You can change your setting at any time to get the latest videos tailored to you. Learn more”

which is kind of a nice feeling.

A slight variation of this: I bookmark specific Youtube channels to only view their content.

I use the RSS/Atom feed of specific Youtube channels so that I know when new things are posted:

* https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=THE_CHAN...

This is what I do. It's really awesome that this exists.

Is it even possible to have the RSS feed from the subscriptions page?

you can take out sube data then give it to a rss reader to find all of them. It can be a pain to add to the reader and there would be no thumbnails.

I have bash scripts set up to download new videos from specific channels using yt-dlp once a day. I don't even have to visit youtube anymore :)

I just use my YT account on Chrome these days, but watch most videos in another browser without being logged in. Downside, it doesn't remember all my preferences/playlists/etc. Upside, recommendations are limited to my actual viewing choices over the last week or so.

Another option is to use RSS readers. Every YT channel page has <link> elements pointing to RSS feeds, which means you can paste channel URLs into any RSS reader and subscribe to them through that.

This is the only way to use YouTube. Didn't really think people used "Home" or "Shorts." Bad suggestion will still show up in the sidebar though.

I use Home. I appreciate being recommended content similar to the stuff I watch, and it's how I've discovered some of my favourite creators.

How can that be used with Android TV?

thanks

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