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Somewhat unrelated but I think there should be a law to force all of these big corps to give people an opt out button to disable algorithmic feeds and recommend
by m_ke 5y ago
Somewhat unrelated but I think there should be a law to force all of these big corps to give people an opt out button to disable algorithmic feeds and recommendations.
- _Algernon_ 5y agoWhile Youtube doesn't have a full opt-out it does at least have a reverse chronological feed still available[0]. You can get quite close to an algorithm free experience by using that feed, combined with blocking sections that include recommendations with ublock origin. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions
- dredmorbius 5y agoYou can block the Recommendations (and Comments) portions of the page, provided you're using a browser that supports extensions, using uBlock Origin or Stylish, amongst others. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28266550 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28266550
- m_ke 5y agoYes I already do that. My issue is with recommendations in app, I mostly watch CS / ML lectures and for some reason youtube keeps recommending right wingers and other sensational clickbait no matter how much I click "not interested" and "don't recommend channel".
- dredmorbius 5y agoAll the more reason to ditch the app.
- TchoBeer 5y agohow odd, I don't find this true for me at all. For a while I turned off watch history (which means that the recommendations are only based on your subscriptions) and that was... not an objection improvement, it made it harder to find content that was unlike the stuff I'm subscribed to, but it also made my recommendations more focused.
- dnissley 5y agoIs this basically what you want? https://www.google.com/videohp?hl=en https://www.google.com/videohp?hl=en Or do you want just a list of videos from channels you've subscribed to?
- spookthesunset 5y agoI mean how else do you plan to filter millions of videos?