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I don't see the problem with someone not wanting recommendations on their front page, having a chronological feed somewhere else is nice but it's not the same t

I don't see the problem with someone not wanting recommendations on their front page, having a chronological feed somewhere else is nice but it's not the same thing. Videos that get popular, and are therefore recommended, are those that prey on the basest components of our human nature (even if you curate your feed as best as possible), I don't see why we should put up with it. Your list of recommendation algorithms is inaccurate, a chronological feed is not a recommendation algorithm in any sense of the term, as for the rest you can't compare the deeply complicated and often abusive recommendation algorithms that are deployed on social media to the simple heuristics you listed.

distortedsignal 4y ago
> ... I don't see why we should put up with it. I mean, you don't have to. Don't want to see YouTube's algorithmic feed? That's cool - just HTTP 3xx your youtube.com to the subscriptions page. There are some good browser addons to do just that[1][2]. Granted, that doesn't remove the recommendation algorithm from your YouTube experience. You would have to use some kind of content blocker to remove the algorithmic feeds from the video pages. I find that uBlockOrigin works well for that. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/ocgpenflpmgnfapjedencafcfakcekcd?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/ocgpenf...