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> I've seen the recommendations get better then worse then better again as they tweaked the algorithms. Right now it's better than it's ever been. Again, for me

> I've seen the recommendations get better then worse then better again as they tweaked the algorithms. Right now it's better than it's ever been. Again, for me. Teach me your secret to receiving good recos. The bad quality of recos is the total downturner for me. Nothing, absolutely nothing interesting for months. All that's being recommended is totally generic high view stuff, not at all related to my channels or content. Just a global dump of "what's being watched". No topical clustered recommendations of channels I haven't watched in the past or am not subscribed to. Good lord they have so much data. In my experience well over a year now, they fail miserably at recommendations.

labrador 4y ago
To my knowledge no one outside of YouTube has ever sat down to analyze the recommendation engine and figure out how to use it better. I mark things as "not interested" a lot. I also "like" videos. Maybe that's the difference.
thethethethe 4y ago
You can train the algorithm by saying you are not interested in videos or channels. I have told the algorithm to not recommend garbage channels with top 10 videos and my feed is much better now
lovehashbrowns 4y ago
Maybe you’ve got some garbage in your YT history? I’ve found recommendations to get insanely good in the last year. I’ve gotten a ton of channels whose views number <10,000 per video and they make chill or super interesting content. Start liking videos more and using the “don’t recommend channel” feature. I went hard on that feature for a day or two and I think it helped. It might be interesting to start a fresh account and figure out how to game the recommendations for specific types of content. I might do that this weekend.
Roverlord 4y ago
This Mitchell & Webb sketch is a pretty good summation of many of my recent Youtube recommendations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MusyO7J2inM?t=55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MusyO7J2inM?t=55

labrador 4y ago

To my knowledge no one outside of YouTube has ever sat down to analyze the recommendation engine and figure out how to use it better. I mark things as "not interested" a lot. I also "like" videos. Maybe that's the difference.

thethethethe 4y ago

You can train the algorithm by saying you are not interested in videos or channels. I have told the algorithm to not recommend garbage channels with top 10 videos and my feed is much better now

lovehashbrowns 4y ago

Maybe you’ve got some garbage in your YT history? I’ve found recommendations to get insanely good in the last year. I’ve gotten a ton of channels whose views number <10,000 per video and they make chill or super interesting content. Start liking videos more and using the “don’t recommend channel” feature. I went hard on that feature for a day or two and I think it helped. It might be interesting to start a fresh account and figure out how to game the recommendations for specific types of content. I might do that this weekend.

Roverlord 4y ago

This Mitchell & Webb sketch is a pretty good summation of many of my recent Youtube recommendations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MusyO7J2inM?t=55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MusyO7J2inM?t=55