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Youtube does have a great escape latch though: go to the History tab and delete your viewing history. Your recommendations start from scratch and you’ll get fun
by hombre_fatal 4y ago
Youtube does have a great escape latch though: go to the History tab and delete your viewing history. Your recommendations start from scratch and you’ll get funneled into a potentially new corner of videos.
With that in mind, I think Youtube recommendations are quite good. Just do it when your recommendations get stale, monthly or so.
I wish other platforms had that like Amazon.
- joe_guy 4y agoAmazon actually has a pretty detailed page that lets you control what feeds back into your recommendations. https://www.amazon.com/gp/yourstore/iyr/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/yourstore/iyr/
- hombre_fatal 4y agoThanks, I had no idea. This is great.
- piva00 4y agoIt'd be great if I didn't use my History to actually find videos I've previously watched... I don't understand why recommendation engines just don't provide a reset button. It'd be better for everyone involved: content provider, content creators, users, ad buyers.
- JohnFen 4y ago> With that in mind, I think Youtube recommendations are quite good. Having to nuke a valuable reference like your history in order make the recommendations approach something useful is the opposite of "quite good".
- hombre_fatal 4y agoWell, I'm one to appreciate what we have available to us especially compared to the alternatives and temper my appreciation accordingly. I don't know if I use a single service that gives me particularly compelling control over recommendations. Though I also don't find myself deep-diving my history so often that clearing it every few months affects my life, but I suppose I can see how that could be a setback.
- JohnFen 4y agoMy main point is that if the recommendations are improved by giving YouTube _less_ information to work with, that's a solid sign that the recommendation system is borked.