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There's a "don't recommend channel" option if you click the 3 dots button on a video. I use this liberally for all sorts of reasons and it makes my recommendat
by FartyMcFarter 4y ago
There's a "don't recommend channel" option if you click the 3 dots button on a video.
I use this liberally for all sorts of reasons and it makes my recommendations much better.
- dwighttk 4y agoFor some reason that only shows up in certain webviews (I’m not interested in the app)
- FartyMcFarter 4y agoYou're right, it shows up on the youtube homepage as well as the recommendations on the right side, but not for a particular video while watching it.
- hobs 4y agoA much better approach is to go to your history and delete it from your history (if you're signed in) this will change your recommendations so much harder.
- utucuro 4y agoHere's one better: just disable the watch history. Your subscriptions then have a much bigger influence on recommendations and you have more control.
- moffkalast 4y agouBlock breaks that menu though, so it's a hassle to turn it off, block it and then turn it back on. Especially since you have to refresh and youtube randomizes the recommendations again and sometimes hides all traces of that channel.
- zhfliz 4y agoworks fine with no issues at all for me on uBlock origin. unless you're talking about literal uBlock, which i can't comment on.
- BurningPenguin 4y agoI've blocked entire accounts, because it kept coming back every time i searched for something specific. It was one of these "10 best <xyz>" channels. Really annoying.
- alexb_ 4y agoTop 10 videos are so often just complete crap. Every once in a while you will get a decent production, and even rarer you get one of those that isn't also an ad for something (looking at you, MrWhoseTheBoss). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz_xJPN7lAY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz_xJPN7lAY comes to mind as one of the "good ones". But the format is just so perfect for what YouTube as a platform rewards.
- miniwark 4y agoI have done it a lot for around a year, but i think than the block list is very limited, because after a will the same "blocked" channels come back again in the list. I have now stopped to use this fake feature. I am sure of it because i regularly block official news or music channels, but they appear again anyway after a wile. It's the same for the "not interested" feature. I have stop to tell them, when asked, why i am not interested (mainly because i have already see the video). The same already "not interested" videos, already viewed and already liked videos show up again after a wile anyway...
- smaryjerry 4y agoI am convinced the not interested button does absolutely nothing.
- ecuzzillo 4y agoIt does at least blacklist that exact video.
- 0xffff2 4y agoI'm baffled by people who says things like this. I make heavy use of both "Not Interested" and "Don't recommend Channel". They don't do as much as I would like (why oh why does Youtube insist on thinking I'm interested in obscure Rap/Hip Hop?), but I can clearly see recommendations shift over time. Marking any single video doesn't seem to do much, but marking 5-10 similar videos (mostly) does something.
- winternett 4y agoPaid promotion (by channels) breaks past the barriers... It's part of the conflict of maintaining the illusion that sponsored content is what gets first placement throughout YouTube. Its also maddening to content creators how newly upload content lists only feature paid promotional content every time. That's also exactly what makes certain (paid) content look massively popular over everything else, even when the production values are sub-par.
- 4y ago
- darepublic 4y agoI have been using it most recently to shield myself from an avalanche of Depp and Heard trial clips seemingly created to support Depp.