I digitally sterilised by great aunt’s tablet. Removed YouTube. Removed Google’s slop news feed. Switched her browser to brave (no ads) and search engine to duckduckgo. Put on more sensible news outlets like the BBC and ITV.

Now she’s complaining that it’s “just not as good as it used to be”.

My great aunt is going into slop withdrawal.

  • Flax@feddit.ukOPEnglish
    5·
    22 days ago

    Could be a good idea tbh. Maybe a third party client. Problem is, some of them don’t work.

    I know some Christian YouTube channels she might enjoy that are actually pretty orthodox and not off the walls.

    The problem with YouTube is also the ads. A while ago there was an AI generated robotic dog toy ad. Like advertising itself as a realistic robotic dog. That’s the type of thing she’d fall for immediately.

    • november@lemmy.vgEnglish
      4·
      22 days ago

      NewPipe? She can follow her favorite channels without getting the algoslop recommendations, it blocks ads, and you can even log in if she wants to comment on videos.

      • Flax@feddit.ukOPEnglish
        1·
        22 days ago

        I’ll try it out on my own device. The dog (that she is incapable of taking care of) ate the charging cable so no more tablet for a while.

        She does like watching actual stuff. But the slop distresses her.

    • Grimy@lemmy.world
      2·
      22 days ago

      It’s easy to download whole channels with yt-dlp. Then I would just make her some folders in vlc I guess if you don’t want to spend money. Although a server is 200$ and then you could put them on jellyfin but ya, I don’t know of any serverless options that have a youtube feel to them.