• TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    I wish there was a feature like this on YouTube. I’d love a profile for watching educational videos, a profile for feeding me cool videos when I’m high, and a profile for when my kids want to watch stuff. I’m tired of vibing and listening to music videos only to get hit with a language learning podcast or Disney songs.

    It’s insane that they have an incognito mode that still serves up ads even though I have premium.

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      11 hours ago

      I agree, I would love seperate “recommendation profiles” so like if I am in the mood for music, swap to music, if I want education, I can swap to that, feeling lets play? swap to gaming, horror could be creepypasta or horror games.

      All under the same parent account so the premium status could apply while google would still be able to leech data off the main profile, the only difference is the curated content given is based off the profile.

      edit: HOLY CRAP APPARENTLY THIS EXISTS ALREADY; you just need to make a sub channel under your parent account and the benefits share. I didn’t realize recommendations were isolated with that.

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      21 hours ago

      You can create different accounts under different email addresses.

      Once you’re logged in, you can switch between accounts from the dropdown menu.

      I’ve done this in the past to separate French YouTube recs from English ones.

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        20 hours ago

        I did this as well but the other accounts get ads because the premium only applies to my first account. Terrible user experience and Google go hand in hand

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      21 hours ago

      They do have categories and I’ve tried to put different channels in different categories, but the thing is just so hard to use I gave up.

      It’s quite surprising how bad Google can be at UX.

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        20 hours ago

        It really is wild how a company can be so massive yet unable to do basic UI. I got a notification that someone replied to a YouTube comment I made so I clicked the notification and it opened up YouTube’s landing page. I tried to find notifications and couldn’t so instead I tried to find a page that has my comment history.

        I had to look it up and apparently you can’t even find it on YouTube, you have to go to a separate website, my activity.google.com.