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YouTube without (personalized) recommendations The feature they dont talk about Felix Morsbach November 24, 2019 What is this all about? 1 Newsboat + YouTube: 2 An alternative! 1 5 What is this all about? T he WHY ? Journey to


  1. YouTube without (personalized) recommendations The feature they don’t talk about Felix Morsbach November 24, 2019

  2. What is this all about? 1 Newsboat + YouTube: 2 An alternative! 1 5

  3. What is this all about?

  4. T he WHY ? Journey to de-googlify myself YouTube knows a scary amount of my personal preferences But I don’t want to miss out on my daily doses of Linus and co. Quest: Looking for an alternative! ◮ Able to keep track of favourite channels ◮ Without making it easy to track me 2 5

  5. T he WHAT ? Use YouTube’s RSS endpoints Use a local RSS reader to poll each channel ◮ No dependency on another online service Watch YouTube videos without a browser 3 5

  6. T he HOW ? 1. Choose a RSS reader ◮ I chose Newsboat, a customizable terminal RSS reader 2. Transform all your YT subscriptions into RSS subscriptions ◮ Simple script transforming OMPL to the simple Newsboat format 3. Add new subscriptions by finding the channel id ◮ pre-built scripts or services available 4. (Optional) Use a command line video player like MPV 4 5

  7. Newsboat + YouTube: An alternative!

  8. Demo

  9. Links For a more detailed write up on how to set this up for your own, see: www.the-privacy-captain.net 5 / 5

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