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Sometimes, I want to watch a random video that was recommended, but I get anxious about clicking on it and start getting recommendations for that video's theme
by haolez 5y ago
Sometimes, I want to watch a random video that was recommended, but I get anxious about clicking on it and start getting recommendations for that video's theme forever and ever.
Once, I've clicked on a video about Tetris' World Championship Finals (I was curious!), and I was plagued with Tetris recommendations for some months.
- skybrian 5y agoI guess that means you've learned to care a lot about YouTube's recommendations? Another approach is to ignore them.
- paganel 5y agoThat's what I personally do, I treat the side-bar as basically an ad-bar and my peripheral view just ignores it. It wasn't always like this, about 7-8 years ago I used to discover lots of interesting music after watching some indie music video, but not anymore, at some point their algorithm just broke (it looks like it's searching for a local maximum and once it finds it it gets stuck in there, as someone else mentioned above).
- JohnFen 5y ago> I treat the side-bar as basically an ad-bar and my peripheral view just ignores it. I just now realized that I do this too. So much that I've never actually paid any attention to the contents of the sidebar at all. My brain just automatically filters it out.