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We currently don't allow our son to watch anything on youtube, simply because it's a cesspool of horrible videos for children. You're always almost one click aw
by atonse 8y ago
We currently don't allow our son to watch anything on youtube, simply because it's a cesspool of horrible videos for children. You're always almost one click away from some violent video where cartoon characters are getting their limbs chopped off, etc. And it's sickening that Google's done nothing about it.
Secondly, I can't watch any video without it taking over my recommendations. Alex Jones for example. I still haven't watched an Alex Jones video (I was curious about what rubbish he spews), without worrying that I'll get a bunch of delusional hyper-conservative drivel taking over my recommendations.
There should be a way to watch a video once and not have it take over your recommendations.
On the one hand, we find that we're making great strides in certain areas with ML. On the other hand, recommendation systems are still just so, so, so naive and bad.
- alttab 8y ago>> There should be a way to watch a video once and not have it take over your recommendations. Log out.
- nwellnhof 8y agoYou can't log out of the YouTube Android app anymore. There's only an incognito mode.
- alttab 8y agoDon't use the app
- propogandist 8y agoNewpipe
- zcid 8y agoOr if you want the official experience: https://vanced.app https://vanced.app
- atonse 8y agoEven if you logout, your anonymous session has its own set of recommendations. No?
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- Ivoirians 8y agoIf you delete a video from your Youtube watch history, it doesn't get used for recommendations anymore. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/95725?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/95725?hl=en
- colejohnson66 8y agoMy anecdotal experience agrees. I cleared my watch history and then all my recommendations changed from being tech related to more pop culture oriented for a few weeks
- jobigoud 8y agoUnless you have history disabled entirely. Why can't we opt out completely from "recommendations"?
- rasz 8y agoIts a Lie. I have YT watch history disabled for hmm 2 years now, recommendations "work" just the same.
- londons_explore 8y agoDisabling it != Removing a single item from the list.
- rasz 8y ago" When you pause history, any videos that you watch while history is paused won't show in history and won’t be used to improve your recommendations." is a lie
- brianpgordon 8y agoWhat do you want them to do? I'm an adult who uses YouTube and I don't want sanitized kid-friendly recommendations just so that you can protect your son's eyes from cartoon violence. In fact, several of the creators I like have been pinched hard by changes to the All-Powerful Algorithm which seem to be deliberately de-emphasizing anything that could be remotely considered offensive, and it's not fair to them at all.
- mactrey 8y agoThere should be a "parental controls" toggle.
- mcrittenden 8y agoYouTube Kids is a separate app. Does that not suffice?
- platzer 8y agoHow about employing 10 people of this massive platform to curate some channels that people can easily subscribe to? It could literally be advertised to be kids-friendly and not dumb etc.
- TheForumTroll 8y ago>And it's sickening that Google's done nothing about it. So all of us should be handheld on YT because of your son? No thanks. Violence should be allowed. The problem is at your end.
- imhelpingu 8y agoThanks for sharing your personal opinion about videos you've never watched.
- InclinedPlane 8y agoNobody needs to watch an Alex Jones video to have an opinion on the man. He is a garbage person who spreads lies and propaganda. This isn't an opinion, this is Jones' own admission in court of what his program represents.
- imhelpingu 8y agoYeah, and similarly nobody needed to bring him up in this thread at all. But don't think too hard about that.
- zenkat 8y agoYeah, those Tom & Jerry cartoons are HORRIBLE.