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YouTube recommendations is one of those filter bubbles which I've learned to use heavily to my advantage. I consume a lot of video content and I've learned to
by scrollaway 6y ago
YouTube recommendations is one of those filter bubbles which I've learned to use heavily to my advantage.
I consume a lot of video content and I've learned to curate my watch history (what to watch/search for in incognito versus watch logged in; what to delete from my history etc) so that my youtube homepage actually consistently has a lot of high quality discovery.
One thing I systematically do is avoid videos that are anywhere between 10m00s and 10m20s in length: those are almost always videos that have been arbitrarily lengthened to meet some ad length milestones. I've even seen videos slowed down by some percentage just to fucking get to 10 mins.
Also apparently youtube's changing the milestone to 8 minutes soon, so I'm going to watch out for those too…
- WmyEE0UsWAwC2i 6y agoI had similar results following similar practices. I distinguish between stuff I want the algorithm to recommend and stuff that I only want to consume "on-demand" (that is when ever I search for it). The second category covers topics with lots of content so It would overwhelm the other interests. YouTube some times asks me how do I feel about my recommendations and some times all of them are interesting. But I can't watch them all (maybe I should add them to watch later, to tell the algorithm that I care) The turning point was when they allowed us to tell the algorithm which videos were not relevant.