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These recommendation engines suck During election month I watched lot of news videos Then my feed was just news Then I unfollowed and said "I want to not see
by thewhitetulip 7y ago
These recommendation engines suck
During election month I watched lot of news videos
Then my feed was just news
Then I unfollowed and said "I want to not see channel x" for every 25 such channels
And then I watched standup comedy
And now my entire feed is comedy bits
I've moved back to watching tv shows/reading books and occasionally watching a specific video on YouTube
- Faark 7y agoI have a hard time understanding how youtube can screw this up so badly. Spotify does it nicely. They clearly recognized the few different tastes I have. And then offer separate discovery-queues for each of them and let me decide depending on what mood/situation i'm in. But that might be the main difference... they signal back their knowledge to the user. Steam kind does the same with "Is this game relevant to you?" info. More clearly telling me what youtube thinks about me would be the first step towards correcting it...
- thewhitetulip 7y agoYoutube screws it badly because they think they know better than users.