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> My feed often randomly recommends "SJW owned compilation" and "feminism fails". I had the same videos queue up in mine and nothing I watch seems even remotel

> My feed often randomly recommends "SJW owned compilation" and "feminism fails". I had the same videos queue up in mine and nothing I watch seems even remotely related to that. My YouTube usage is pretty "family friendly" so it struck me as particularly odd to see such blatantly divisive hate videos. I've even seen weird ads about deep state conspiracy stuff on there too. Their algorithms seem totally broken because I'm definitely not the right target for that stuff.

icebraining 9y ago
Where do these appear? If it's in the Recommendations, you can delete them, then a link appears called "Tell Us Why", and in that dialog you can see which video in your history influenced that recommendation (and tell it to stop recommending stuff based on it). It's always worked quite well for me. I have zero crap in my recommendations.
- wybiral 9y ago
  Usually the "Up next" queue where it supposedly suggests related videos. I don't pay much attention to the recommendations on the main page or anything. And some have been ads. One that sticks out was selling some crazy deep state book, but the ads was mostly just selling a conspiracy theory about the FBI.
  - icebraining 9y ago
    Oh, the related videos. Yeah, I don't know if those can be influenced. I keep the autoplay disabled.
- pjc50 9y ago
  The problem isn't just my reccomendations, it's those of my fellow citizens, voters, and potential lynch mobs. (Also, I don't get the information on why a video is reccomended to me - is it country-specific? I was googling for how to find it and ironically came across a huge thread of complaints: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/7Sf7Emtrwp0 https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/7Sf7E...)
  - icebraining 9y ago
    The problem isn't just my reccomendations, it's those of my fellow citizens, voters, and potential lynch mobs. No argument there. Also, I don't get the information on why a video is reccomended to me - is it country-specific? I don't know; it worked in all European countries I've used it in. You mouse over the video, it shows the three-dots menu (⋮), then you choose "Not Interested", then the thumbnail is replaced by text saying "Video Removed" and "Tell Us Why". Example: https://imgur.com/a/zlUtCfc https://imgur.com/a/zlUtCfc
    - pjc50 9y ago
      Ah, I've figured it out: the next dialog, "Tell Us Why", doesn't always name a particular video that prompted the reccomendation. Some of them do, some of them don't. Which begs the next question: where are they coming from if not previously watched videos?
      - icebraining 9y ago
        Uh, that's curious. Can't say that ever happened to me.
- dingaling 9y ago
  You can only do that if you have a Google account. For everyone else yve Recommendations feed is an uneditable, unhidable list of click bait and dross.
mrweasel 9y ago
There's definitively something wrong with the Youtube recommendation algorithm, it is much less intelligent that people assume. For some reason YouTube want's me to watch Bill Burr and John Oliver. I tried multiple times to tell YouTube that I'm not interested, only to have the same content pop up in my recommendations a few days later. The again I have the same issues with Facebook. At this point I fairly sure there's zero intelligence, machine learning or AI behind the Facebook newsfeed.
- wybiral 9y ago
  Maybe we're statistical anomalies but I agree. The recommendations are always crap so I find new content from humans recommending it to me, not machines. And I've never seen an ad for something that actually inspired me to click it or buy anything.

icebraining 9y ago

Where do these appear? If it's in the Recommendations, you can delete them, then a link appears called "Tell Us Why", and in that dialog you can see which video in your history influenced that recommendation (and tell it to stop recommending stuff based on it). It's always worked quite well for me. I have zero crap in my recommendations.

wybiral 9y ago
Usually the "Up next" queue where it supposedly suggests related videos. I don't pay much attention to the recommendations on the main page or anything. And some have been ads. One that sticks out was selling some crazy deep state book, but the ads was mostly just selling a conspiracy theory about the FBI.
- icebraining 9y ago
  Oh, the related videos. Yeah, I don't know if those can be influenced. I keep the autoplay disabled.
pjc50 9y ago
The problem isn't just my reccomendations, it's those of my fellow citizens, voters, and potential lynch mobs. (Also, I don't get the information on why a video is reccomended to me - is it country-specific? I was googling for how to find it and ironically came across a huge thread of complaints: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/7Sf7Emtrwp0 https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/7Sf7E...)
- icebraining 9y ago
  The problem isn't just my reccomendations, it's those of my fellow citizens, voters, and potential lynch mobs. No argument there. Also, I don't get the information on why a video is reccomended to me - is it country-specific? I don't know; it worked in all European countries I've used it in. You mouse over the video, it shows the three-dots menu (⋮), then you choose "Not Interested", then the thumbnail is replaced by text saying "Video Removed" and "Tell Us Why". Example: https://imgur.com/a/zlUtCfc https://imgur.com/a/zlUtCfc
  - pjc50 9y ago
    Ah, I've figured it out: the next dialog, "Tell Us Why", doesn't always name a particular video that prompted the reccomendation. Some of them do, some of them don't. Which begs the next question: where are they coming from if not previously watched videos?
    - icebraining 9y ago
      Uh, that's curious. Can't say that ever happened to me.
dingaling 9y ago
You can only do that if you have a Google account. For everyone else yve Recommendations feed is an uneditable, unhidable list of click bait and dross.

mrweasel 9y ago

There's definitively something wrong with the Youtube recommendation algorithm, it is much less intelligent that people assume. For some reason YouTube want's me to watch Bill Burr and John Oliver. I tried multiple times to tell YouTube that I'm not interested, only to have the same content pop up in my recommendations a few days later. The again I have the same issues with Facebook. At this point I fairly sure there's zero intelligence, machine learning or AI behind the Facebook newsfeed.

wybiral 9y ago
Maybe we're statistical anomalies but I agree. The recommendations are always crap so I find new content from humans recommending it to me, not machines. And I've never seen an ad for something that actually inspired me to click it or buy anything.