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When I'm signed in, it's the same except that it also sometimes suggests somewhere in the list next to a video that's playing a single video that I watched a wh
by IIsi50MHz 4y ago
When I'm signed in, it's the same except that it also sometimes suggests somewhere in the list next to a video that's playing a single video that I watched a while ago.
For me, YouTube hasn't been able to suggest properly for years; ages ago, suggestions were all clearly related to the current video in some way. The old behaviour lead me to spend lots of time on YouTube.
When "Shorts" started appearing on the main page, it somehow seemed like I couldn't get rid of it. I somehow don't want to see it ever, on any computer so it being default is as evil to me as blinking ads.
The addition of forced-autoplay-unless-you-sign-in[1] is definitely a case of Making It Suck[2].
So, I increasingly use other clients, or exclude YouTube results from searches. This pretty well gets me away from clickbait rubbish like "$profession doesn't want you to know this!!", grossly exagerated faces/postures, and Shorts.
[1] Welll… actually I guess it's "default to autoplay whether signed in or not, and keep resetting it if you're not signed in".
[2] Meaning, moving people towards what another behaviour by making something else more difficult.
- Reason077 4y agoMaybe you aren't signed in enough for it to have learned your preferences? You can also click the "..." button on a video's thumbnail and select "not interested" or "don't recommend this channel" on content you don't like, which in my experience is very effective at improving future recommendations. I also get annoyed by the Shorts section (they're almost pure clickbait/teasers, addictive but no real content, waste of my time!). But I can just click the "X" and it disappears for 30 days. If they didn't have the "close for 30 days" option, I agree, this would really suck.