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My youtube sucks, I'm always looking for stuff to kill my time and youtube recommend the same crap videos 500 times in a row. It take a long time to find someth

My youtube sucks, I'm always looking for stuff to kill my time and youtube recommend the same crap videos 500 times in a row. It take a long time to find something I want to watch.

tsomctl 6y ago
I've been loading the Youtube homepage every 15 minutes for the past week (I've been sick). It's the same videos over and over again. If I scrolled past it the first time, I'm still going to scroll past it the 100th time I see it.
- kenniskrag 6y ago
  get well soon. May you want watching some TED talks instead. :)
- 3131s 6y ago
  That's actually what prompted me to post this. I don't know how Youtube's algorithms work internally, but lately the front page is just so broken that it's baffling. The sidebar recommendations are another discussion -- those are possibly more pernicious but at least not as obviously dysfunctional. How is it possible to have the largest repository of video content in the world, yet Youtube is only able to recommend me the same videos over and over again (half of which I seen already or quickly clicked out of). There is also a simplistic list of recommended categories, which I would change if I could, and those never change either. If the front page were just completely random, it would be better than it is now. If I could actually tell Youtube to show me videos with a low-to-moderate view count and a high upvote ratio, then that would be fabulous and I probably would encounter new subjects and ideas rather than getting stuck watching the same garbage over and over. I'll never let my future children spend even a second on Youtube, because the stuff that it recommends to kids is so asinine that it just makes me mad. I really believe that collectively we are all much dumber because of the Youtube's pathetically bad algorithms.
  - visarga 6y ago
    You're probably right about the recommender but kid videos are not crap. In fact there's a Cambrian explosion of kid videos, some are amazing.
- zo1 6y ago
  You know it's bad when one of the reasons for dismissing a video is "I've watched this before". If I didn't know any better, I'd say it's a separate sub-system(gasp, microservice) that doesn't integrate nicely with the service that stores/holds your previous viewing history.
- combatentropy 6y ago
  Agreed. This tweak to their formula would improve it for me masssively: show the video on my Home page just once. If I click reload, show me an entirely new set. Someone may say, this would bother others, who saw something interesting but didn't click it this time. For me, it would train me to open those in a new tab or save them to my Watch Later list. Or just make it an opt-in feature, this aggressive renewal of the home page.
RavlaAlvar 6y ago
The trick is to actively tell YouTube what you don’t like, it work quite well for me.
- thatishard 6y ago
  I did try this a few times, but usually it have little effect on my recommendations.
  - JoeAltmaier 6y ago
    Yeah I do it, and you have to be relentless. Mark every video you don't want to see. And god help you if you watch even one off-topic video - like another comment mentions, YouTube algorithm then concludes you want to see a million more. Reminds me of a Weird Al lyric about TiVo: "I watched Will and Grace one time, one day. Now TiVo thinks I'm gay."
thatishard 6y ago
Another thing, don't click on a "Clickbait" video because you are curious, it will open the gates of hell and destroy your recommendations for a week.
- whywhywhywhy 6y ago
  Removing them from your watch history can often fix this.
disown 6y ago
You can thank toxic journalists who attacked youtube recommendations for being "toxic". You can also thank the toxic journalists for all the censorship on youtube. Youtube recommendations 10 years ago was so amazing. Just a refresh or two and you'd get interesting stuff - obscure or popular, new or old. It didn't matter. Now, it's the same corporate, propaganda or popular vids over and over again. You bring up youtube and it's mostly the same exact recommendations from yesterday and the day before. They are literally cycling the same videos over and over again. Why not make the default search and recommendations "PC" to appease the toxic journalists. But give the users the option to revert back to the "normal" search and recommendations. Why can't they do it like they do search. "Safe", "Moderate", "The good old days" modes?

My youtube sucks, I'm always looking for stuff to kill my time and youtube recommend the same crap videos 500 times in a row. It take a long time to find something I want to watch.

tsomctl 6y ago

I've been loading the Youtube homepage every 15 minutes for the past week (I've been sick). It's the same videos over and over again. If I scrolled past it the first time, I'm still going to scroll past it the 100th time I see it.

kenniskrag 6y ago
get well soon. May you want watching some TED talks instead. :)
3131s 6y ago
That's actually what prompted me to post this. I don't know how Youtube's algorithms work internally, but lately the front page is just so broken that it's baffling. The sidebar recommendations are another discussion -- those are possibly more pernicious but at least not as obviously dysfunctional. How is it possible to have the largest repository of video content in the world, yet Youtube is only able to recommend me the same videos over and over again (half of which I seen already or quickly clicked out of). There is also a simplistic list of recommended categories, which I would change if I could, and those never change either. If the front page were just completely random, it would be better than it is now. If I could actually tell Youtube to show me videos with a low-to-moderate view count and a high upvote ratio, then that would be fabulous and I probably would encounter new subjects and ideas rather than getting stuck watching the same garbage over and over. I'll never let my future children spend even a second on Youtube, because the stuff that it recommends to kids is so asinine that it just makes me mad. I really believe that collectively we are all much dumber because of the Youtube's pathetically bad algorithms.
- visarga 6y ago
  You're probably right about the recommender but kid videos are not crap. In fact there's a Cambrian explosion of kid videos, some are amazing.
zo1 6y ago
You know it's bad when one of the reasons for dismissing a video is "I've watched this before". If I didn't know any better, I'd say it's a separate sub-system(gasp, microservice) that doesn't integrate nicely with the service that stores/holds your previous viewing history.
combatentropy 6y ago
Agreed. This tweak to their formula would improve it for me masssively: show the video on my Home page just once. If I click reload, show me an entirely new set. Someone may say, this would bother others, who saw something interesting but didn't click it this time. For me, it would train me to open those in a new tab or save them to my Watch Later list. Or just make it an opt-in feature, this aggressive renewal of the home page.

RavlaAlvar 6y ago

The trick is to actively tell YouTube what you don’t like, it work quite well for me.

thatishard 6y ago
I did try this a few times, but usually it have little effect on my recommendations.
- JoeAltmaier 6y ago
  Yeah I do it, and you have to be relentless. Mark every video you don't want to see. And god help you if you watch even one off-topic video - like another comment mentions, YouTube algorithm then concludes you want to see a million more. Reminds me of a Weird Al lyric about TiVo: "I watched Will and Grace one time, one day. Now TiVo thinks I'm gay."

thatishard 6y ago

Another thing, don't click on a "Clickbait" video because you are curious, it will open the gates of hell and destroy your recommendations for a week.

whywhywhywhy 6y ago
Removing them from your watch history can often fix this.

disown 6y ago

You can thank toxic journalists who attacked youtube recommendations for being "toxic". You can also thank the toxic journalists for all the censorship on youtube. Youtube recommendations 10 years ago was so amazing. Just a refresh or two and you'd get interesting stuff - obscure or popular, new or old. It didn't matter. Now, it's the same corporate, propaganda or popular vids over and over again. You bring up youtube and it's mostly the same exact recommendations from yesterday and the day before. They are literally cycling the same videos over and over again. Why not make the default search and recommendations "PC" to appease the toxic journalists. But give the users the option to revert back to the "normal" search and recommendations. Why can't they do it like they do search. "Safe", "Moderate", "The good old days" modes?