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YouTube actually works pretty well for me. Most of the time I get great suggestions and it feels like there's a lot of great content to watch (if only I had the

YouTube actually works pretty well for me. Most of the time I get great suggestions and it feels like there's a lot of great content to watch (if only I had the time to actually watch everything). I don't know the inner workings of YTs algorithms, but I believe it helps that I never watch the low quality drivel and have very focused topics that I subscribe to. I also don't spend too much time on YouTube so every time I do check it out it seems like there's new content from several high quality channels. The dislike button was fairly useless in the channels that I visit. When I seldomly open the "trending" section by mistake, I am usually appalled.

wildrhythms 4y ago
+1 I have a habit of opening anything that might remotely poison my recommendations in right-click > Incognito. Youtube recommendations have always been annoying for me... constantly showing me things I've seen before, but generally I understand why it's recommending me things, and I understand the overlapping circles of topics and where the videos are coming from. I also religiously use the three dot > Don't recommend video option on videos that are low quality, clickbait, etc. in my suggestions. Not sure what signal that sends to Youtube exactly, but those types of videos show up less and less in my recommendations. I call it weeding the garden.