Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

YouTube is horrible. They use it for school occasionally and so it would have to be available during that Covid year of online schooling. My wife actually noticed that around Feb of 2021, the algorithm had won. Our son was hooked.

‘How can a 6 year old boy compete with a bunch of engineers at Google?’ - wife

Since that time I have been playing with a YouTube app concept that only allows limited access and doesn’t auto play.

I don’t know that it is a full ‘solution’ but it does allow Science Max and Mystery Doug and other great content to learn from without all the negatives.



What about these alternative YT front ends that I can’t remember the names of? They’re all based on the same software but some people make their instances public.

There is no algorithm there, no ads, no auto play.

On Androïd, what about newpipe?


You log them in, manage their subscriptions.

Subscribe them to science channels.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: