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YouTube has the best recommendation system in the world. Of course it gets lots of complaints. But the amount of fantastic content it has consistently recommen
by scrollaway 5y ago
YouTube has the best recommendation system in the world.
Of course it gets lots of complaints. But the amount of fantastic content it has consistently recommended for me, including even pretty small channels, is incredible.
A few points though:
1. I find YouTube to be good for general educational content. I don’t know if it’s as good for specific niches of entertainment.
2. It’s not just plug and play. You need to actively tell YouTube what you like and dislike, remove trash recommendations, and remove terrible videos from your watch history.
Do this, and you will be rewarded with a YouTube homepage full of hours upon hours of absolute gold. When I don’t know what to do, I open YouTube and just let it run. It’s awesome and life changing.
- jonny_eh 5y agoVisit https://www.youtube.com/feed/trending https://www.youtube.com/feed/trending for the non-personalized alternative, based on currently popular videos in your country.
- scrollaway 5y agoYeesh. I didn't know about that page. I'm glad I have a customized feed.
- Fomite 5y agoYouTube repeatedly tries to steer my recommendations from the content I'm watching (stuff on terrain making and miniature wargames) to decidedly alt-right content, to the point that at the moment, I mostly watch it logged out and directly searching for the channels I want to watch.
- scrollaway 5y agoYou’re not going to fix it by watching stuff logged out. You need to hit “don’t recommend this” for a while on creepy videos and it’ll get the hint pretty quickly.