Muting this subreddit isn't enough, I have to give up youtube now too? Or maybe not!
<sigh> I really don't want to be spoiled as to Rush's setlist, so I muted this subreddit. I figured I was fine. Except that I use youtube. A LOT. There are so many good things on it. Music, science, information, comedy... it's one of my primary forms of entertainment. And tonight there are already two song postings from the first show. One I'm not surprised over at all and I expected. The other is more of a "I wonder if they're going to play that?" song.
I can easily give up a subreddit. But it really irks me to give up youtube. .....
I was about to ask if there was a way to have youtube restrict Rush but then thought I'd ask Copilot that question. Basic answer was that I'd have to click the options for the video and say "Not interested" and after several times it would get the hint and stop. But I pointed out to Copilot that by then, I'd have already seen song names in the video titles. So what does Copilot go and do? It gives me a great workaround! I created a temporary gmail account and a new youtube account on it. It has no knowledge of my history and won't show me all the latest Rush videos!
Posted Jun 8, 2026, 4:48 AM UTC