I'm sure most people get normal YouTube recommendations, not me tho

@HumanEarth Tbh, I don't mind the recommendations, as it helps me find new and interesting content that I probably wouldn't see otherwise,

I kinda like the unhinged and crazy 😂

I still block the ads tho 🤔

@Fishy @HumanEarth I subscribe to premium for $13.99 a month, it's ad free, allows me to download, and lets me put my phone on standby and still listen when I put on my eight hour rain asmr when I go to bed.

@NativePortlander1970 I just use the Brave Web Browser which lets me do that, and for the downloading I use Uni Converter or Seal 😶

If you're using Android with Brave you can check the "Desktop site" option and use the loop/repeat feature

@Fishy I use chrome, premium allows me to download directly to youtube without taking up space on my phone.

@Fishy i like Brave and right now im trying out Merezhyvo browser on ubuntu touch

@NativePortlander1970 I dont like paying companies that dont care about your rights or their employees rights

@HumanEarth That's pretty much 100% every company now.

@NativePortlander1970
How is that even possible? 👀

@Fishy Youtube stores it in my account as a download.

@NativePortlander1970 yeah, but if you're not connected to wifi or mobile data and it's stored on the cloud/your account, then how can you listen to it if it's not technically downloaded? 👀

@Fishy It connects to and loads the downloaded video

@NativePortlander1970 yeah, ngl,
I still have no idea how that works if you wanna use it offline 😭

@Fishy You do have to be online to access the videos, I don't have the actual phone space to physically download directly to it.

@Fishy YT downloads a cache file to the “/data/data/ folder in a android folder. Basically its not really downloading the video, but a small tiny file that has the website and account access information on it.

So say you have one them streaming accounts for that ruko thing and you paid Amazon Prime 3.99 to watch a movie. But you can also watch it on your phone or computer.

You go to the website, sign in and click to download. Well that download is that cashe file and that to has all your access information on it to

So, when you let privacy go bye bye and big tech have full control. They can read everything that in stored on that device. Including passwords and banking information.

Passwords managers are not safe.

Writing them down in code on paper and store them on book is better then on a computer