code-charity / code-charity/youtube
fix yt hiding recommended
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Feature request
good first issue
help wanted
up-for-grabs
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
| SHORT Table | (Summary) |
|---|---|
| Problem | youtube hides recommended if you disable watch history or don't have anything in your history |
| Solution | add a feature that makes it still appear even w/o either of those |
| Alternatives | add a separate website that recreates youtube w its api or smth idk |
| Scope | the youtube home page |
| Side effects | youtube getting mad at you maybe?? |
| Context | youtube decided to add that as a feature because they don't give af abt privacy |
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start at the extension’s handling of the YouTube home page and trace how recommended videos are affected when watch history is disabled or empty. The work is done when a setting or feature keeps recommendations visible in both cases, with the behavior verified on the YouTube home page.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100