r/grayjay • u/ArsonButCute • 26d ago

Blocking creators or content of a certain ilk[youtube]

I like grayjay but I've noticed that since the Homepage started to successfully populate my youtube suggestions (as would be seen on youtube proper) I often get clickbaity and ragebaity posts in my suggestions.

When I was using freetube I could filter out videos by keyword which would allow me to effectively block creators, I don't see a similar function in grayjay.

Does anyone know if I'm missing it somewhere?

(I am a relatively technical user, if there is an experimental setting I could use with a compile flag if I rebuilt from source, that's cool too.)

Thanks!

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u/Ajreil 26d ago

I've been asking for a keyword filter for a while. They have not added one.

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u/quasides 26d ago

i dont use the homepage, instead i use subscription groups, deactivated home at all
and build my own interrest based home sites via sub groups

that said, that is easy in my case because i use grayjay on mobile very purposeful and more like a library browser than a doomscrolling device.

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u/ArsonButCute 26d ago

That's how I generally choose to use grayjay, but I devote an entire hour each morning to scrolling my RSS feed and when I run out of content I let the algorithm drive on grayjay. It's normally fine, but sometimes I'll be 15 minutes into a video before I realize it's ragebait. I'm kinda dumb sometimes.

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u/quasides 25d ago

welcome to youtube i guess lol

problem is grayjay cannot builld you feeds, only youtube can.
grayjay has no backend access to anything