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Youtube and Google Now have turned into weird "interest-related" ghettos. I've completely stopped using Google Now and I only use Youtube via direct link (how d

Youtube and Google Now have turned into weird "interest-related" ghettos. I've completely stopped using Google Now and I only use Youtube via direct link (how does the most popular video platform have by far the worst discoverability? Would it kill them to add categorization and browsability?) A good example: I liked "Azealia Banks - 212" on Youtube. Then, I got some random article about some crazy thing she did on Google Now and clicked. Now, there's some article about her in my feed literally every single day. I see how it happens, but it's annoying and makes me hate the product.

mattigames 7y ago
Exactly, this article was born when I searched for one video about dumbell exercising and clicked one single video, since then I have clicked more than 50 "I'm not interested" and "Don't recommend from this channel" but YouTube still recommends a lot of exercising videos despite only have seen a single one, the tastes extrapolation YT does is just plain ridiculous and if this is the best "machine learning" at google can do its extremely disappointing.
- generalpass 7y ago
  Years ago I once watched 7 minutes of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow on Netflix. The last time I had Netflix it was still telling me that because I watched Sky Captain, it is recommending a bunch of stuff (that is similar to Sky Captain). All I can think is, how about we pretend that never happened? So, this isn't a problem unique to YouTube. This is a problem everywhere the computers are left to make recommendations for me.
  - mattigames 7y ago
    I disagree, like many here I'm a programmer and is not that hard to fix this issue so I don't think computers here are to blame, is just managers making really bad choices about how recommendations should work.
    - generalpass 7y ago
      Indeed, which is why did not blame the computers. I blamed the people who put them in charge. So, there isn't any disagreement here.

mattigames 7y ago

Exactly, this article was born when I searched for one video about dumbell exercising and clicked one single video, since then I have clicked more than 50 "I'm not interested" and "Don't recommend from this channel" but YouTube still recommends a lot of exercising videos despite only have seen a single one, the tastes extrapolation YT does is just plain ridiculous and if this is the best "machine learning" at google can do its extremely disappointing.

generalpass 7y ago
Years ago I once watched 7 minutes of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow on Netflix. The last time I had Netflix it was still telling me that because I watched Sky Captain, it is recommending a bunch of stuff (that is similar to Sky Captain). All I can think is, how about we pretend that never happened? So, this isn't a problem unique to YouTube. This is a problem everywhere the computers are left to make recommendations for me.
- mattigames 7y ago
  I disagree, like many here I'm a programmer and is not that hard to fix this issue so I don't think computers here are to blame, is just managers making really bad choices about how recommendations should work.
  - generalpass 7y ago
    Indeed, which is why did not blame the computers. I blamed the people who put them in charge. So, there isn't any disagreement here.