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Can I hide all videos with “Minecraft” in the title? Or anything that references MrBeast?
by aantix 3y ago
Can I hide all videos with “Minecraft” in the title?
Or anything that references MrBeast?
- jswny 3y agoJust hit “not interested” on those, the YouTube algorithm is really good at not showing you stuff you tell it not to
- vmfunction 3y agobut I want it to hide on the client side.
- wholinator2 3y agoOut of curiosity, why?
- vincheezel 3y agoI’m not OP but I use YouTube a lot. I would assume two reasons: Some people would rather scalp themselves than create a google account (valid) Even when logged in and using the “Not interested” or the “don’t recommend channel” button, YouTube will sometimes straight up ignore you.
- aantix 3y agoThe issue is that there’s an infinite number of channels that do Minecraft videos. It’s like playing whack-a-trying to hide all the Minecraft channels. I want to hide the topic, not an individual channel.
- striking 3y agoThere are two options. "Not interested" nudges the algorithm away from the topic while "Don't recommend <type> from this channel" immediately hides the channel from recommendations. If your nudges don't feel effective enough, you can also manage your view history. Removing any Minecraft videos you may have accidentally watched from your history will help hide them from future recommendations.
- aantix 3y agoI’ve tried all of the above and Minecraft keeps coming up. I think the engagement numbers are tracked per user, and that’s what they recommend off of. Data outside the scope of the listed user history. It’s insanity. And infuriating. I want a diverse set of recommendations, not another 1,000 Minecraft videos.
- LordDragonfang 3y agoFile feedback in the app. My understanding is that people in charge of the recommendation system actually look at it and try to use it to make the system better.
- kastden 3y agoAnd reaction videos?
- busymom0 3y agoI want a script which hides all videos which have a thumbnail of a person with their mouth open. Way too many creators have been using that now a days.
- olig15 3y agoI use this, which uses crowd sourced thumbnails from within the video https://dearrow.ajay.app https://dearrow.ajay.app works really well. Made by the dev that made SponsorBlock
- jacekm 3y agoI use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clickbait-remover-for-youtube https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clickbait-rem... - it replaces thumbnail with a frame from the video.
- franzb 3y agoA dumb thumbnail is a useful signal to know that I won’t want to watch the video anyway :)
- huseyinkeles 3y agoAs annoying as it is, I remember a channel I subscribed to once mentioned that they did a little AB experimentation and turns out “surprised face” thumbnails do actually attract more views.
- busymom0 3y agoI don't doubt that at all. But that's turned into way too many creators using it as the default expression in every thumbnail. I remember visiting a true crime channel and all their videos had the same face....
- mgsk 3y agoLinus (of Linus Tech Tips) said pretty much that. They do the "OMG" face for a day or two, and then switch to a less annoying thumbnail.
- senectus1 3y agoor ANY youtube shorts?
- jacekm 3y agoI use uBlock Origin for hiding shorts: youtube.com##ytd-reel-shelf-renderer:has(.ytd-reel-shelf-renderer:has-text(Shorts))
- danesparza 3y agoDear god. This.
- insin 3y agoThis is already a feature, enabled by default. I missed a few issues with certain options while developing it because it never occurred to me not to have Shorts hidden all the time.
- senectus1 3y agoomg, AND you let me hide "Mixes" i wish i could do these things to the android client as well!