She’s almost 70, spend all day watching q-anon style of videos (but in Spanish) and every day she’s anguished about something new, last week was asking us to start digging a nuclear shelter because Russia was dropped a nuclear bomb over Ukraine. Before that she was begging us to install reinforced doors because the indigenous population were about to invade the cities and kill everyone with poisonous arrows. I have access to her YouTube account and I’m trying to unsubscribe and report the videos, but the reccomended videos keep feeding her more crazy shit.

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    Also consider - don’t sign in to YouTube. Set uBlock, and Sponsorblock, too - so when youtube does get watched, the ads and promotions get skipped.

    Everyone here is missing the point - by signing in to YouTube, you give Google more power to dominate your life.

    With a simple inoreader extension in Firefox, you can visit a youtube/youtuber/video page and subscribe the feed.

    Search interesting channels and save them to Feedly, or Inoreader.

    Pin those to Firefox, so that your feeds are always refreshed and visible.