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I don't know how you're getting relevant recommendations; YouTube seems determined to get me into watching the latest celebrity personalities, or endless stream

I don't know how you're getting relevant recommendations; YouTube seems determined to get me into watching the latest celebrity personalities, or endless streams of clickbait. I use a few custom uBlock Origin rules to hide the recommendations sidebar and the end-of-video overlay complete. If a video doesn't show up in my list of curated subscriptions, I just don't see it, and that's fine. It's good for my feed to be slow and update infrequently; I've got other stuff to do.

kbenson 5y ago
I make a concerted effort to upvote stuff I like, so maybe that helps. When I was watching videos from /r/videos (which I haven't done in a while) I would actually make sure to click through to YouTube to give an upvote on things I thought deserved it (it always seemed kinda sad to me that some someone else might post a video to reddit and get a bunch of karma but while the creator might get a lot of views, most of those viewers wouldn't even be presented an upvote option for stuff they enjoyed). In addition to that, while my subscriptions does have some crap in it, it's also got quite a few math and science educators, as well as people doing visual essays. I'm also a sucker for educational crossed with pop-culture, so stuff from LegalEagle usually gets a watch and a like (and I'm subscribed) as well. I agree is does seem to weight recommendations to much on what was recently watched sometimes, but I imagine that's so people that are in the rabbit hole can go deeper if they want. Unfortunately, it makes it hard to find something interesting for me on occasion when the last stuff I was watching is not what I'm in the mood for at all. I treat YouTube like I do any other media source, like Netflix. I go to it and look for stuff to watch when that's what I actually want to do, so I don't generally mind watching a few things in a row. Often I'm doing it on my TV.
ttctciyf 5y ago
My method: I subscribe and upvote generously, only downvote when it feels good, and do "not interested" in the sidebar recommends, with prejudice ("I don't like the video") if necessary. But the real trick is, on the yt home page, if any video that even looks like content I don't like comes up, I choose the option "don't recommend any more videos from this channel" immediately. Only in this way have I managed to completely expunge all mention of J**dan P**erson from my yt recommends. Completely!
- stefan_ 5y ago
  This sounds like the Google News problem - there are more trash blogspam news pages found by Google daily than you can possibly ignore. I've stopped using it entirely because of this but just today it's showing stuff from "Cool Material", "Reality Tea" and "BreatheHeavy.com" (not to forget "Minimalist Baker").
Zevis 5y ago
I'm with the other two replies. My recommendations match my interests quite well. Probably due to what videos I like and others that I hide because they're not relevant to me. I don't think I'd be using YT if it weren't for the video suggestions.
progforlyfe 5y ago
Any time you see a related or recommended video that annoys you, you should click the three dots and choose "not interested"

kbenson 5y ago

I make a concerted effort to upvote stuff I like, so maybe that helps. When I was watching videos from /r/videos (which I haven't done in a while) I would actually make sure to click through to YouTube to give an upvote on things I thought deserved it (it always seemed kinda sad to me that some someone else might post a video to reddit and get a bunch of karma but while the creator might get a lot of views, most of those viewers wouldn't even be presented an upvote option for stuff they enjoyed). In addition to that, while my subscriptions does have some crap in it, it's also got quite a few math and science educators, as well as people doing visual essays. I'm also a sucker for educational crossed with pop-culture, so stuff from LegalEagle usually gets a watch and a like (and I'm subscribed) as well. I agree is does seem to weight recommendations to much on what was recently watched sometimes, but I imagine that's so people that are in the rabbit hole can go deeper if they want. Unfortunately, it makes it hard to find something interesting for me on occasion when the last stuff I was watching is not what I'm in the mood for at all. I treat YouTube like I do any other media source, like Netflix. I go to it and look for stuff to watch when that's what I actually want to do, so I don't generally mind watching a few things in a row. Often I'm doing it on my TV.

ttctciyf 5y ago

My method: I subscribe and upvote generously, only downvote when it feels good, and do "not interested" in the sidebar recommends, with prejudice ("I don't like the video") if necessary. But the real trick is, on the yt home page, if any video that even looks like content I don't like comes up, I choose the option "don't recommend any more videos from this channel" immediately. Only in this way have I managed to completely expunge all mention of J**dan P**erson from my yt recommends. Completely!

stefan_ 5y ago
This sounds like the Google News problem - there are more trash blogspam news pages found by Google daily than you can possibly ignore. I've stopped using it entirely because of this but just today it's showing stuff from "Cool Material", "Reality Tea" and "BreatheHeavy.com" (not to forget "Minimalist Baker").

Zevis 5y ago

I'm with the other two replies. My recommendations match my interests quite well. Probably due to what videos I like and others that I hide because they're not relevant to me. I don't think I'd be using YT if it weren't for the video suggestions.

progforlyfe 5y ago

Any time you see a related or recommended video that annoys you, you should click the three dots and choose "not interested"