no-beato - eliminate him from suggestions on YouTube

[Multicore]

[joke alt="or is it?"]

If you're usually logged in to Google then this likely won't interest you because you can save exclusions in YT preferences. But I don't keep cookies I'm not actively using, especially not from a notorious for-profit tracker like Google. So I usually visit YT naked.

I select a music upload and 9 times out of 10 Rick Effen Beato is in the sidebar. God I hate him, you know, like @Ropeburn hates Teenage Engineering. The pontifical angry dad of music opinion on the toobs of uuu. Worse than Clarkson and DeGrasse Tyson rolled into one. Anyway...

So, long story short, I had an atrocious hangover on Tuesday and with a single prompt in Cursor managed to produce this, the Beato Blocker.

GitHub - tom--/no-beato: Remove Rick Beato (or other problem hitch hikers) from your YouTube suggestions even when you have no google cookie

Remove Rick Beato (or other problem hitch hikers) from your YouTube suggestions even when you have no google cookie - tom--/no-beato

github.com

I'm not sure what the connection between the hangover and finally doing this exorcism is. Lying on the floor with a laptop feeling sorry for myself and enough poison in me to take on his magisterial holiness? Being unable to do much of anything else?

And it works! I'm no longer faced with that YouTube face.

[/joke]

 

[mhardy6647]

I don't like him, either.
I do still like many of the dinosaurs* he interviews and/or talks about, though.
No joke.

PS did you consider calling your BeatoBlocker** app BeatOff?
Perhaps better styled as BeatoFF...


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* amusingly, ironically, or synchronicitiously -- I initially typed that as dionsaurs, but I don't think I was thinking of Mr. Dimucci

** Which, you've gotta admit, sounds like a class of antihypertensive drugs... so, there's some potential ambiguity there.

 

[Multicore]

I do still like many of the dinosaurs* he interviews and/or talks about, though.

Ofc. First, it's show biz and for those in that biz you may have to put up with all sorts of indignities to progress your career. Second, me and Adolf both like(d) dogs and respect(ed) Riefenstahl's technical/aesthetic competencies.

PS did you consider calling your BeatoBlocker** app BeatOff?

I did not.

Perhaps better styled as BeatoFF...

Now you're talking!

Remember, I had a very bad hangover when I confronted the gh repo name question.