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My problem is that whenever I want to have a video recommended and open the YouTube homepage I just get a list of videos that I have watched before. I don't kno

My problem is that whenever I want to have a video recommended and open the YouTube homepage I just get a list of videos that I have watched before. I don't know how this can possible be an effective way to watch videos.

neom 5y ago
Do you tell youtube that you've seen this video before? Usually after 5/6 of these it starts serving new stuff again.
- kevincox 5y ago
  I do sometimes but it doesn't seem to help. Roughly a third of the videos have a progress bar underneath (usually complete or nearly so) so YouTube knows that I have seen them.
  - neom 5y ago
    You have to be aggresive about it for it to work. It totally bogles my mind that youtube doesn't have a toggle for this, I get recommending things I've seen before, my wife loves it, I must have seen her watch the same youtube video 300 times, she doesn't explore youtube she just wants the same set of 50 videos recommended to her over and over again, this has been a pretty common observation I've made... people like this... so then make it a toggle for people who don't.
rasz 5y ago
I see you bought a washing machine recently, you will LOVE this selection of washing machine ads.
- kevincox 5y ago
  You'd be amazed how well these work. Sometimes the order falls through, sometimes the washer needs to be returned. The thing is that these items are so high-profit that targeting this small chance of purchase is very valuable. And these users, even though they have just bought this thing that typically they need 1 of for 20 years, are still higher probability than average to purchase another.
qqii 5y ago
I recently found the "New to you" category bubble that's solved this issue for me. I don't know how they sort the categories but I've only found the "New to you" at the start or end of the list.
- iosifnicolae2 5y ago
  Yeah, I suppose that they are testing new algorithms there..
- 1_player 5y ago
  To me it's hidden at the end of the list, but sometimes it's unreachable unless I resize my browser and many times I don't have that section at all on my Android TV. Not very useful how it's implemented. Also, let us tell YT we're not interested in a category. I've watched a blacksmith video once, I had the Metallurgy category recommended to me for 6 months. Google, the world famous AI company, presents the proof that recommendation engines are incredibly dumb and annoying except in very tightly controlled environments. There is nothing intelligent about it.

neom 5y ago

Do you tell youtube that you've seen this video before? Usually after 5/6 of these it starts serving new stuff again.

kevincox 5y ago
I do sometimes but it doesn't seem to help. Roughly a third of the videos have a progress bar underneath (usually complete or nearly so) so YouTube knows that I have seen them.
- neom 5y ago
  You have to be aggresive about it for it to work. It totally bogles my mind that youtube doesn't have a toggle for this, I get recommending things I've seen before, my wife loves it, I must have seen her watch the same youtube video 300 times, she doesn't explore youtube she just wants the same set of 50 videos recommended to her over and over again, this has been a pretty common observation I've made... people like this... so then make it a toggle for people who don't.

rasz 5y ago

I see you bought a washing machine recently, you will LOVE this selection of washing machine ads.

kevincox 5y ago
You'd be amazed how well these work. Sometimes the order falls through, sometimes the washer needs to be returned. The thing is that these items are so high-profit that targeting this small chance of purchase is very valuable. And these users, even though they have just bought this thing that typically they need 1 of for 20 years, are still higher probability than average to purchase another.

qqii 5y ago

I recently found the "New to you" category bubble that's solved this issue for me. I don't know how they sort the categories but I've only found the "New to you" at the start or end of the list.

iosifnicolae2 5y ago
Yeah, I suppose that they are testing new algorithms there..
1_player 5y ago
To me it's hidden at the end of the list, but sometimes it's unreachable unless I resize my browser and many times I don't have that section at all on my Android TV. Not very useful how it's implemented. Also, let us tell YT we're not interested in a category. I've watched a blacksmith video once, I had the Metallurgy category recommended to me for 6 months. Google, the world famous AI company, presents the proof that recommendation engines are incredibly dumb and annoying except in very tightly controlled environments. There is nothing intelligent about it.