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Same, I'm interested in Programming, Chess, History and Engineering. YouTube recommends "Secret Alien Spaceship you didn't know about" or some equally inane bu
by noir_lord 9y ago
Same, I'm interested in Programming, Chess, History and Engineering.
YouTube recommends "Secret Alien Spaceship you didn't know about" or some equally inane bullshit.
It's so bad I used ublock origin to just filter out that entire vertical section.
The recommendations are simply useless to an end user.
- mistermann 9y agoI watch youtube a LOT and have 3 or 4 different primary interests, and I regularly spend a fair amount of time looking for new channels, etc typically with no success. And then occasionally, I will sometimes come across a perfectly relevant channel with 1 million+ subscribers, that the youtube algorithm has never suggested to me as a channel, or even any of the individual videos. It is so inept that it seems impossible to be accidental - obviously that makes no sense at all, but then knowingly allowing twisted videos to continue existing in children's channels makes no sense either, yet here we are.
- nikanj 9y agoSpotify does similar things with its discover weekly-lists, but at least in their case, the motivation somewhat obvious. I don't think payola is a think for Youtube videos yet, though it seems inevitable that there's a market opportunity there.