The difference has to do with archives vs. feeds. Websites built around archives are okay but websites designed around feeds are not. Basically, I want to allow websites that let me watch old shows like Firefly but not websites that push the newest television series. In other words, I want websites that let me look up shows I already want to watch but not websites that advertise new shows to me.
You can sculpt a service like this out of pretty much any service that keeps its old shows around. For example, you can use ublock origin to remove all side-bar video-suggestions from youtube (and also remove comments, if you want). Then you can just forbid yourself from going to the home page (or automatically block it with something like leechblock), and only ever access videos by doing search directly. If you have a way of adding any search engine to your browser (which I recommend getting; I think there are easy ways to do this in most browsers, though I use vimium), you can add youtube.com/results?search_query= or netflix.com/search?q= or whatever you want to it.
I did a cursory search for tools like this but didn’t find anything. Instead I’ve been using crude, less specific methods like editing my /etc/hosts file. I didn’t know about leechblock and ublock origin. These could be useful.
The difference has to do with archives vs. feeds. Websites built around archives are okay but websites designed around feeds are not. Basically, I want to allow websites that let me watch old shows like Firefly but not websites that push the newest television series. In other words, I want websites that let me look up shows I already want to watch but not websites that advertise new shows to me.
You can sculpt a service like this out of pretty much any service that keeps its old shows around. For example, you can use ublock origin to remove all side-bar video-suggestions from youtube (and also remove comments, if you want). Then you can just forbid yourself from going to the home page (or automatically block it with something like leechblock), and only ever access videos by doing search directly. If you have a way of adding any search engine to your browser (which I recommend getting; I think there are easy ways to do this in most browsers, though I use vimium), you can add youtube.com/results?search_query= or netflix.com/search?q= or whatever you want to it.
I did a cursory search for tools like this but didn’t find anything. Instead I’ve been using crude, less specific methods like editing my
/etc/hostsfile. I didn’t know about leechblock and ublock origin. These could be useful.