Oh, also pair it with https://dearrow.ajay.app/ to crowdsource de-ragebaiting titles/thumbnails (from the maker of Sponsorblock)

The trending page stopped being worth looking at once it shifted away from actual trending content. That content was replaced with ad friendly corporate videos like Kimmel and family vloggers you've never heard of.

Meanwhile report every video that has a click-baity title or thumbnail

don't they just wanna turn that into the "everything" page? I get the feeling that Youtube and sites like it would rather us watch what they want rather than what we want.

Revanced if you're on Android

Lol. I only ever go to my subscriptions page.

When I open YouTube it gives me an edless feed of recommendations tailored to me. I don't care what other people are watching. If there's a tab with the title "trending" I've probably just never clicked it. I'm not even tempted to go see.

It blows my mind how popular shorts are because I've never had an interest in watching them.

Shorts are annoying, but now they started cluttering the subscription page with community posts.

It's bad, but especially when you browse in landscape Mode on a phone. They get blown up so big you have to scroll like 3 pages for one post, and there's a lot of them.

And they will stay on your page forever and wont go away. No option to click them away at all.

I do enjoy this but I didn't realize I had the EU to thank!

After you watched a first video though it seems to have no problem remembering what your browser fingerprint has watched before.

They might, once it becomes too flooded with AI slop.