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Peertube

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A free software to take back control of your videos

Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.

https://joinpeertube.org/

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Peertube Picks Firefox release (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Cattail@lemmy.world to c/peertube@lemmy.ml
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PeerTube Picks is now available on the official Firefox Add-ons page! Firefox users no longer have to worry about losing their data when the browser closes:

FireFox add-on link

The name PeerTube Picks was chosen through collaboration with the PeerTube Lemmy community. This add-on provides video recommendations using a cosine similarity algorithm based on videos you've watched and liked. It aims to predict which videos you're likely to engage with—either by watching for longer periods or hitting the like button.

Updates: The PeerTube Picks icon now appears next to the search bar on any PeerTube page. Clicking it opens a list of recommended videos, ranked by engagement and relevance.

A new Options page allows you to:

-Download or upload your video watch history

-Delete your watch history (recommended occasionally to refresh your recommendations)

I’m open to suggestions and contributions—feel free to share ideas or improvements!

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[–] Cattail@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

You can collect your own data and run your own algorithms. This add on does that. It does track what peertube videos you watch and for how long in browser.

The only communication is for metadata of video because the device needs a way to figure out what's out there.

I feel confident that this respects privacy. Only issue is maybe storing the data in the browser but I have the option to delete it and it's removed.

I will say cosine similarity algorithm is good enough and different enough from existing peertube algorithms. Helped me find a few amounts