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It's annoying clicking some youtube link only to find it was something you really don't want more of, and then youtube proceed to recommend much more of it, eve
by werid 5y ago
It's annoying clicking some youtube link only to find it was something you really don't want more of, and then youtube proceed to recommend much more of it, even though you barely watched any of it.
kinda forces me to watch something else that is new but at least somewhat wanted in an attempt to make the algorithm look at the new shiny i'm interested in and forget the previous one.
i find it funny though when amazon still make recommendations to me based on a purchase in 1998. yes, Jeff, i still want to buy wrestling VHS tapes...
- JoeyBananas 5y agoYou should use the dislike button to let the algorithm know that you didn't enjoy the video.
- shp0ngle 5y agoYou can delete your YouTube history, which will make the recommendations usually disappear.
- cookguyruffles 5y agoI never log into YouTube and this still happens, it's at least in part keyed to IP address
- beforeolives 5y agoThis will kind of clean up your current recommendations but it doesn't reset the recommendation algorithm like it used to. The algorithm still retains memory of your past behaviour. For example if I consistently listen to 3 unrelated songs [A B C] on youtube together, the algorithm will regularly recommend them to me (because of my unique behaviour, not because they're similar). If I reset my history and then listen to song A, then B and C get immediately recommended even though they aren't similar to A and they don't exist in my listening history which means that the information about my listening/browsing habits is still there in the recommendation model.
- TchoBeer 5y agoIf you turn off watch history is basically only suggests stuff based on subscriptions which is much better imo and I never need the history feature anyway.
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- eCa 5y agoClick the three dots and then either "Not interested" or "Don't recommend channel". Seems to work reasonably well for me.
- Ticklee 5y agoI wish someone would make an extension that makes this a simple hover+keypress instead of multiple clicks. As it stands right now it is too much of a hassle to manually click 2 times per video. But if you do not then youtube will continue to plaster that video on your homescreen for weeks.
- alpaca128 5y agoWhat if it's from a channel I like but don't want to watch that one video...will clicking on this reduce suggestions from this channel, will it do nothing, will it unsubscribe me from that channel(as has happened in the past), ...? Nobody knows, I only know I don't want to play this game.
- smichel17 5y agoUse Firefox multi-account containers and the temporary containers add-on. Now your YouTube starts fresh with every new tab. It's actually nice, it means you get to build a new set of recommendations each time you open a tab, and because YT doesn't have that much data on you yet, the recommendations are directly linked to the thing you're currently watching, similar to how it used to be before the whole tracking extravaganza.
- dvfjsdhgfv 5y agoMore or less. Sadly, they still suggest a ton of stuff based on geolocation.
- asddubs 5y agoI'm in germany so i always get asinine videos recommended about what americans think about germany and what germans think about what americans think about germany
- alpaca128 5y agoYes, I always hesitate to mark YT videos as unwanted because often it's from a channel I otherwise like a lot and I have no idea how YT will behave after that. Considering the site is known for even auto-cancelling subscriptions sometimes it feels like a UX minefield.
- travoltaj 5y agoYouTube's personalization recommendation is a nightmare. Just the other day, YouTube played "Billie eilish -copycat" for me literally after every other song. I pretty much only YouTube in Incognito mode these days. Everytime I forget, YouTube manages to annoy me so much within half an hour that I switch to Incognito again.
- trickstra 5y agouse Invidious https://docs.invidious.io/Invidious-Instances.md https://docs.invidious.io/Invidious-Instances.md
- 1_player 5y agoIt'd be great to know what invidious is in the first place. No description of it in the docs site, and the main site is an empty placeholder. Super.
- spamalot159 5y agoIt's frustrating that nowadays YouTube seems like it can only keep 3 or 4 types of videos that you like in its head. I feel like I'm watching the same thing over and over whenever I click on recommendations. I totally agree with you.
- rozab 5y agoExactly! Sometimes my recommendations are good, with long form tech and history content I actually want to watch. But click on one Top Gear clip and that's all out the window, and I have to actively recall what these channels were called and try to build them back into my recs. There was a time a couple years ago I watched one episode of Arthur for nostalgia purposes and it completely obliterated my recommendations. I scrolled for hundreds of videos and didn't see a single non-arthur one. It took months for the site to become usable again.
- khimaros 5y agoi find NewPipe subscription groups are a better way to keep up with creators i care about.
- beaconstudios 5y agoI hope you never make the mistake of clicking on a clip from The Office!
- x86ARMsRace 5y agoI continually get suggested videos that are all already watched. I can't think of the last time I've gotten video suggestions that don't already have a red line at the bottom. At least it has stopped queueing up the same 3 videogame walkthrough videos I always click out of the minute they start.
- theandrewbailey 5y agoAbout half of the videos Youtube throws at me are ones I've already watched. While I will occasionally rewatch something, it's nowhere near half the time. I thought that it was because I use Youtube without being logged in, but I guess not?
- gentleman11 5y agoIt’s better if you click that stuff, it causes the algorithm to recommend stuff you don’t care about, which means less YouTube holes to get sucked into
- Spooky23 5y ago> amazon still make recommendations to me based on a purchase in 1998. yes, Jeff, i still want to buy wrestling VHS tapes... It’s funny you mention that. For many years I would get recommendations for Latino lgbt books. Weird as it’s not really my topic. I found a way to look at how they generate recommendations, and it turns out that I bought a book about a gay Chicano growing up for a college class in 1998 or something.
- jbaber 5y agoCan you share what you found out?
- the_lonely_road 5y agoHe found out he bought a book about “chicanos” which I assume is slang for a gay or lesbian Latino/Latina person which the user takes as confirmation that the purchase they made in 1998 is the explanation for why they are receiving recommendations for Hispanic LGBT literature now in 2021. I don’t think the user meant to imply they had gained any special insight into the algorithm other then personal confirmation that purchase as far back as 1998 are still being incorporated.
- astrange 5y agoChicano means a Mexican-American with political overtones.
- lathiat 5y agoyou can mark the recommendaitons as not interesting, likely to fix it up pretty quick.
- DreamScatter 5y agoIsn't there a "not interested" button on YouTube? That might fix your issue.