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YouTube premium never shows me adds, and downvotes have reliably gotten the AI to stop suggesting a musician or autoplaying a song that I don't like, regardless

by rz2k 6y ago

YouTube premium never shows me adds, and downvotes have reliably gotten the AI to stop suggesting a musician or autoplaying a song that I don't like, regardless of their rough membership in a genre I otherwise want to hear. It makes me feel guilty to downvote someone or their work who's probably a good person, but it's the only reliable way to tune the AI. I get a lot of enjoyment out of music on youtube premium, but would stop using the service if they started airing ads on the pay service, or began serving music in such a way that I couldn't tune the suggestions and automatic play queues.

ma2rten 6y ago
When you see the suggestion you can select "not interested" instead.
- 252452d 6y ago
  Which does nothing, of course.
  - epivosism 6y ago
    For me, on youtube premium, "not interested" has massive, immediate effects on what is shown in my feed. Try it and see.
jlebar 6y ago
The tweet is clear that you can still downvote videos to tune the algorithm. Dislikes just won't be shown.
- youeseh 6y ago
  Perhaps they should let paying members see counts.
  - pushrax 6y ago
    Surprisingly, that would be the tipping point that would get me to pay. Dislike ratio is very useful to avoid wasting time.
    - tomcooks 6y ago
      That's what YouTube wants eh
      - rapferreira 6y ago
        Just going to stop using Youtube at some point.
qiqitori 6y ago
I guess this might be the reason they're getting rid of the downvote functionality. The YouTube community usually doesn't take downvotes as "not interested", but rather as an explicit expression of "this is crap".