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Youtube: we see that you've accidentally clicked on one outrage video game video. Here's two weeks of your feed being flooded with Jordan Peterson dogshit and m

Youtube: we see that you've accidentally clicked on one outrage video game video. Here's two weeks of your feed being flooded with Jordan Peterson dogshit and misogynist gamers Youtube's recommendation algorithm is absolutely terrible. EDIT: Also, Tiktok allows videos of up to ten minutes now, and still works well with that length.

throwaway290 4y ago
1. In my experience, this is only true for blank accounts where algorithm doesn't have much to go by. Not the case for me. 2. If you don't want to register a video, you can remove it from your watch history, or you can watch it anonymously. What about TikTok? 3. I know TikTok has a 10 minute limit now, I meant 40 minutes and up. Where in the world do 10 minutes count as "long"?
- ohgodplsno 4y ago
  1/ 10 year old account. Worse than ever 2/ you can dislike the video and tell it not to recommend it (unlike YouTube), and you can watch the videos on their website anonymously 3/ are you seriously watching 40+ minutes on your phone? They have two different goals, and that's fine.
  - throwaway290 4y ago
    > you can watch the videos on their website anonymously And do you personally ever do that? How exactly? The crippled slow 'online viewer' that doesn't allow you to even do a simple search and blocks you with a login wall after a couple of minutes? > are you seriously watching 40+ minutes on your phone? They have two different goals, and that's fine. Yes, why not? An informative hands-on engineering workshop or an interview with a screenwriter easily run hours. If you will say 'TikTok is not designed for that', well that's my point, YouTube has equally great recommendation system and is designed for that equally as well as it's designed for 30-second cute animal videos. > 10 year old account Sorry to hear that YouTube is broken for you. I just can't imagine using TikTok for anything informative, like TFA suggests, when something like YouTube exists.

throwaway290 4y ago

1. In my experience, this is only true for blank accounts where algorithm doesn't have much to go by. Not the case for me. 2. If you don't want to register a video, you can remove it from your watch history, or you can watch it anonymously. What about TikTok? 3. I know TikTok has a 10 minute limit now, I meant 40 minutes and up. Where in the world do 10 minutes count as "long"?

ohgodplsno 4y ago
1/ 10 year old account. Worse than ever 2/ you can dislike the video and tell it not to recommend it (unlike YouTube), and you can watch the videos on their website anonymously 3/ are you seriously watching 40+ minutes on your phone? They have two different goals, and that's fine.
- throwaway290 4y ago
  > you can watch the videos on their website anonymously And do you personally ever do that? How exactly? The crippled slow 'online viewer' that doesn't allow you to even do a simple search and blocks you with a login wall after a couple of minutes? > are you seriously watching 40+ minutes on your phone? They have two different goals, and that's fine. Yes, why not? An informative hands-on engineering workshop or an interview with a screenwriter easily run hours. If you will say 'TikTok is not designed for that', well that's my point, YouTube has equally great recommendation system and is designed for that equally as well as it's designed for 30-second cute animal videos. > 10 year old account Sorry to hear that YouTube is broken for you. I just can't imagine using TikTok for anything informative, like TFA suggests, when something like YouTube exists.