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YouTube is also untrainable. I spent quite a while with "not interested" and "don't recommend this channel" and it worked pretty badly but kind of worked. Then

YouTube is also untrainable. I spent quite a while with "not interested" and "don't recommend this channel" and it worked pretty badly but kind of worked. Then suddenly a few weeks ago it totally stopped working. I'd click "don't recommend this channel" then refresh and the channel would be right there. I researched and the recommendation to fix this is to clear your watch history. So I did that, and it cleared all my recommendation building entirely. "don't recommend this channel" works again but I'm starting from scratch and no doubt it'll stop working in the future again.

_Algernon_ 5y ago
Id be happy if youtube just stopped filling my entire home page with videos I've already watched.
- Jensson 5y ago
  You can just remove them from your feed permanently. It is a bit annoying, but takes a couple of seconds per video, so isn't a huge amount of time wasted compared to how much time is spent watching the videos. Whenever I see any video in my feed I don't want to watch I just do that, and since it runs out of things then it has no choice but recommend new and different things.
  - da25 5y ago
    How do I do that ? I'm only aware about the "Not Interested" menu option, but I doesn't reliably remove the video from my feed. It would probably get removed for a particular viewing session, but I usually found it gets recommended again after some days. Is there anyways to remove the video permanently ?
  - _Algernon_ 4y ago
    Helpful if you haven't used yt for long, but I'm not gonna click through every video I've watched for the past >decade just for yt to start recommending me unwatched 5minutecrafts videos :P
drbernardi 4y ago
I found the opposite to work better. I don't care about sport at all, so I deleted all my previous likes and just liked a few dozen sport videos. With watch history disabled (to avoid gathering further data), I'm actually see mostly sport content now, which I can safely ignore.
scrollaway 4y ago
Youtube is very trainable. You have to curate your watch history more than click "don't recommend", though. If your recommendations are currently absolute trash it might even be best to clear your watch history altogether and start from scratch. But FWIW... it's absolutely worth it. The YouTube recommendation algorithm, when trained, works REALLY well and is a gold mine of useful content.
- esperent 4y ago
  As I said in the comment above, I was doing that, it was kind of working although I wouldn't say well. But then it totally stopped working - "don't recommend channel" stopping working and I think "not interested" stopped working too. The only solution was to clear my watch history and start over. If you search you'll find this is extremely common - I think there was even a HN post about it a few weeks ago.

_Algernon_ 5y ago

Id be happy if youtube just stopped filling my entire home page with videos I've already watched.

Jensson 5y ago
You can just remove them from your feed permanently. It is a bit annoying, but takes a couple of seconds per video, so isn't a huge amount of time wasted compared to how much time is spent watching the videos. Whenever I see any video in my feed I don't want to watch I just do that, and since it runs out of things then it has no choice but recommend new and different things.
- da25 5y ago
  How do I do that ? I'm only aware about the "Not Interested" menu option, but I doesn't reliably remove the video from my feed. It would probably get removed for a particular viewing session, but I usually found it gets recommended again after some days. Is there anyways to remove the video permanently ?
- _Algernon_ 4y ago
  Helpful if you haven't used yt for long, but I'm not gonna click through every video I've watched for the past >decade just for yt to start recommending me unwatched 5minutecrafts videos :P

drbernardi 4y ago

I found the opposite to work better. I don't care about sport at all, so I deleted all my previous likes and just liked a few dozen sport videos. With watch history disabled (to avoid gathering further data), I'm actually see mostly sport content now, which I can safely ignore.

scrollaway 4y ago

Youtube is very trainable. You have to curate your watch history more than click "don't recommend", though. If your recommendations are currently absolute trash it might even be best to clear your watch history altogether and start from scratch. But FWIW... it's absolutely worth it. The YouTube recommendation algorithm, when trained, works REALLY well and is a gold mine of useful content.

esperent 4y ago
As I said in the comment above, I was doing that, it was kind of working although I wouldn't say well. But then it totally stopped working - "don't recommend channel" stopping working and I think "not interested" stopped working too. The only solution was to clear my watch history and start over. If you search you'll find this is extremely common - I think there was even a HN post about it a few weeks ago.