arandomreactdev's comments

On: YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’ is turned off

[arandomreactdev]

I’ve had watch history disabled for years, and the suggested videos were always perfectly fine.

Now I have zero ability to discover new channels, and already my engagement is much lower since I’m limited to what I’m subscribed to, or whatever random search query I make.

My YouTube experience is significantly degraded now.

Fortunately, they appear to have created more interfaces for mass deleting old comments and likes / dislikes, so I’ve been utilising that too.

I look forward to seeing what else they punish me for, for using the settings and tools they provide.

[rgoulter → arandomreactdev]

If you want recommendations based on the content you enjoy watching, YouTube still displays recommendations beside videos (even with watch history turned off).

If you want to see a list of videos unrelated to your subscriptions, you have the options of looking at Trending videos, or videos under Gaming, Music, News, Sports.

(...And of course, if you do want recommendations on the home page, you have the option to re-enable watch history and get those).

I don't agree that "zero ability to discover new channels" is a reasonable description of the options someone has with watch history disabled.

[kevin_thibedeau → arandomreactdev]

I don't subscribe to anything and never use YouTube from a session that's logged into Google. Now all I see is the default vapid millennial influencer dreck that used to disappear after I watched some of my preferred content.

On: An airline said her bag was lost, her tracker said otherwise. She flew to get it

[arandomreactdev]

> “you need to provide a telephone number, which is linked to your real-world identity”

What country do you live in? I can go to my local supermarket and buy dozens of pre-paid SIM cards with pocket change.

If you’re somehow associating your literal identity to a phone number, it sounds like you must be in a pretty heavy surveillance state.

Additionally, if you’re worried about being tracked, I hope you don’t carry a phone whatsoever.

On: An airline said her bag was lost, her tracker said otherwise. She flew to get it

[arandomreactdev]

I used to catch the bus instead of flights, but it’s just not worth the few dollars saved.

People stink. People eat hot stinky food. Oh, and there’s only one toilet here and we’re only stopping for a few minutes. Oh and this stop doesn’t have food options suitable for my dietary needs.

A 12 hour bus trip vs a 1 hour flight?

I’ll always take the flight now.

On: Show HN: I made a customizable iOS browser for minimalists and myself

[arandomreactdev]

I agree, and find it quite overstimulating too. I’m not even sure what it’s trying to show me.

[nckh → arandomreactdev]

Got it. I will try to make them more self explicit :)

On: Anytype – local-first, P2P Notion alternative

[arandomreactdev]

Surely that’s just the nature of IPFS, right?

[ianopolous → arandomreactdev]

Not necessarily. You can add auth at the encrypted block level: https://peergos.org/posts/bats

On: New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable

[arandomreactdev]

Then everyone will just use an auto-reply service.

[jedberg → arandomreactdev]

Which would be fine, because those services still cost money and/or require maintenance. There would still be a way to track down the owner of the copyright. You could even make it part of the law that the respondent must be the copyright holder or have had contact with the copyright holder within the last X days.

On: GPTrolley – Who Would GPT Save in the Trolley Problem?

[arandomreactdev]

The results are often very uninteresting or thought provoking.

[senectus1 → arandomreactdev]

meh, I think we're not being critical enough with the results.. I mean:

I asked it Russia or Ukraine and it chose Russia...

So I asked it Ukraine or Russia and it chose Ukraine...

On: Google search's death by a thousand cuts

[arandomreactdev]

> The funny thing is the site which should have been removed like the of Stackoverflow spam clones

Absolutely. I have a browser extension installed specifically to block domains that are this type of spam from my Google search results, and I’m adding to it almost weekly.

Come on Google, you’re seriously ranking that as front page worthy?

On: File over app

[arandomreactdev]

This makes me think of the following static site generators that use a file-based structure to generate navigation:

https://astro.build/

https://docusaurus.io/

[slorber → arandomreactdev]

As the Docusaurus maintainer, I stand by behind these ideas. Markdown is a portable format, and I'd like to make Docusaurus/Obsidian work well together in the future.

[TheMode → arandomreactdev]

The fact that I do not understand at all what these services are for by looking at their landing page is kinda funny.

[n6h6 → arandomreactdev]

that astro thing, despite saying whatever-it-is is built for speed, is laggy on my phone. kinda funny

On: Steam Deck now the global #1 top seller on Steam

[arandomreactdev]

But why get the Steam Deck 2 when you could wait a little longer and get the Steam Deck 2 Episode 1?