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> I am genuinely curious, how do you find videos worth your time without recommendations? Not without recommendations. I just want the default recommendations
by qwerty456127 4y ago
> I am genuinely curious, how do you find videos worth your time without recommendations?
Not without recommendations. I just want the default recommendations directly related to the video I currently watch, ignoring what other videos I watched before.
How do I find? I just search for a particular subject (maybe also specify the author) whenever I want/need and have time to watch/read something.
- mgdlbp 4y agoIndeed, I find YouTube's recommendations are the most relevant and _interesting_ after navigating through a small number of videos within a focused theme in a fresh session. Any watch history, especially in multiple subjects, just seems to make for increasing blandness and disappointingly little connections between topics. Some prompt crafting-type technique of seeding the recommender with deliberate sequences of videos is probably possible. Youtube's system really is remarkably responsive to this kind of logged-out browsing, unlike most others. Tangentially, there's a lot of praise for TikTok on HN, but I've never found anything compelling there myself.
- hombre_fatal 4y agoJust clear your Youtube viewing history from time to time if you want to reset recommendations based on your subscriptions. (In the History tab) Everyone should be doing this monthly anyways since YT recommendations along with your viewing trends can eventually get too narrow. Nice to reset it.