I worked at YouTube and use it constantly. I knew about it. But I just never used it. Because it was always garbage.

I literally never watch shorts. I’ve selected the option to show less shorts on my computer, I select the not interested option on each individual video on my TV when the row of them shows up, and they still constantly come back.

Freetube does this really well

Good. Can my Watch Later list please be the most important item I see when I go there?

I'm not sure how you can be so invested in YouTube and not at least be aware of trending. Have I ever looked at it? Not intentionally. Am I aware of it? Yeah.

Use browser plug-ins and revanced.

Occasionally a video I like will get to trending and I'll question my taste in media.

When you're logged out the main page is blank. It's glorious. Thanks EU!

True. I know this person and they speak for every single person that uses YouTube.

Knowing Youtube they will start drizzling them into your search results instead or something equally terrible.

• Always check the Subscriptions page first
• Check Watch Later list, after that
• scroll the Home page, after that

Have never seen a link to a "Trending" page or a "Trending Now" list in any of those spots.

I use https://unhook.app/ and there's no trending page

I have YouTube bookmarked to go directly to subscriptions and I have revanced configured to open directly to subscriptions. I've still seen trending as a tab in the sidebar on the website, and accidentally tapped on it back before vanced existed.

All of that said, I did just check and it's way more difficult to find now. It's near the bottom of the sidebar in browser, and iirc it used to have its own frustratingly dedicated tab in the mobile app, which it no longer does.

they doing that to stop all the scrapers like newpipe from "working".

shit is hilarious.

fuck you Google.

unhook is amazing, it blocked unrelated ragebait and tripophobic content randomly popping up on my searches

Hell yeah! It's way too hot even for those.

How's that gonna break NewPipe and the likes? Surely they don't rely solely on the Trending page to get videos and such. I can see unpopular videos as well.

Sure, that could break their Trending pages. But they can then adapt by adopting the different Trending categories, innit? Make it a drop-down on the Trending page to select a category and avoid cluttering other parts of the interface with all the options

it won't, but it's clearly a deterrent. a pathetic one at that.

Dude, I suck at comments but even I put the effort in to get the shrugging guy right. Missing arm fucking sucks. I've got a shitty clue for you. It's a bunch of unnatural slashes

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