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Can we get a button to stop recommending videos that have already been watched? On the front page out of 12 videos listed, I've already seen 7 of them and have
by pg_bot 5y ago
Can we get a button to stop recommending videos that have already been watched? On the front page out of 12 videos listed, I've already seen 7 of them and have no need to watch them again.
- bergesenha 5y agoI second this. I also wish the algorithm would throw a real curveball once in a while too, something completely different to what I have been caught in.
- imglorp 5y agoWhile we're at it, how about just let us call an API and use our own recommender? They probably hate this idea but who knows, that might even increase vid views.
- sbierwagen 5y agoIf you're logged in, hover over the video, click the three dot menu, then select "Not Interested". If you are not logged in you can't do this, for obvious algo manipulation reasons.
- function_seven 5y agoYeah, but then Youtube thinks, "He hates that channel!", rather than, "He doesn't want to rewatch old videos." I keep getting old furniture restoration videos in my feed. I've seen them already. How about different channels on the same topic with new videos posted?
- risho 5y agoyou can tell youtube you've already seen it. you hit "not interested" and then click "tell us why" and then hit "i've already seen it".
- function_seven 5y agoThanks. I never got to that step because I didn't know there'd be another question.
- lucb1e 5y agoIt's quite a few clicks when you could just mentally skip over it, but indeed I wanted it to learn so I went through the trouble. Again and again. Probably more than a hundred times. It doesn't learn. I just pass over them now. The algorithm probably knows better than all of us what keeps us longer on the site anyway and the button is just a dummy.
- gothroach 5y agoWhen you select not interested, it gives the option of saying it's either because you already watched the video or that you don't like the channel. I don't know quite why they keep recommending videos I've watched recently, but at least telling YouTube I've seen a video (...) prevents it from spamming my recommendations.
- dashoffset 5y ago> I don't know quite why they keep recommending videos I've watched recently You probably don't have kids.
- pg_bot 5y agoThis doesn't work, it will just show more videos I've already seen.
- sbierwagen 5y agoWell yes, it doesn't change the algorithm. It just drops that particular video.
- barbazoo 5y agoYou're right but somehow I would think that YT should know which videos I've already watched...
- sbierwagen 5y agoThere's lots of music on youtube. Some "videos" get rewatched hundreds of times.
- lucb1e 5y agoThose are in a category called music. Even without the category system, if the user never ever goes back to rewatch a video they've seen, it could perhaps realize that the user doesn't want to rewatch videos they've already seen. Or if some videos or channels have a very high re-watch rate and others don't (presumably music channels vs., say, a random furniture restoration channel), it could tune for that. Clearly they're not separating the types, and it's not because they're not capable.
- gremloni 5y agoThat doesn’t solve the problem at all. I like and am interested in the videos I’ve watched. I want the algorithm to know I’m interested, I just don’t want it watch something I’ve watched again.
- stewartmcgown 5y agoGo to the end of the list of category pills on the homepage and click 'New to You'
- dpcx 5y agoIt's not perfect, but in Firefox this definitely helps: https://github.com/EvHaus/youtube-hide-watched https://github.com/EvHaus/youtube-hide-watched
- willhinsa 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28569079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28569079 > 2. If you have set your history to expire after some amount of time, it will start re-recommending videos you've already seen once it has forgotten you have watched them.
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