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The YouTube experience just keeps getting worse. I do the majority of my watching on my couch, casting videos from my phone to the TV via Chromecast. It seems
by AdmiralAsshat 2y ago
The YouTube experience just keeps getting worse. I do the majority of my watching on my couch, casting videos from my phone to the TV via Chromecast.
It seems like every time I watch a video now, it adds a "Mix" of similar videos to the one I watched to my home feed. Unlike other videos, I can't remove these stupid Mixes, and so they just remain there, even though I have no desire to watch them. They're like half the videos in my feed now. The other half is uninteresting echo-chamber stuff based on channels I already follow.
It seems like once your YT profile has accumulated enough history, it stops being able to organically recommend anything new or interesting.
- bobthepanda 2y agoThough I don't use the mixes, they are at least an improvement back on whenever they would guess that you wanted to see top trending videos on the whole site, which was usually lowest common denominator stuff (live sports, gaming reaction videos, livebloggers with drama), none of which I actually wanted to see.
- yodsanklai 2y ago> It seems like once your YT profile has accumulated enough history, it stops being able to organically recommend anything new or interesting. They could be continuously tweaking the recommendation algorithm. I have an opposite issue. If I watch a random video outside of my usual themes, suddenly my feed is filled with similar stuff. Personally, my main grief is that they promote mostly professional youtubers and SEO stuff. This is usually the content I don't want to watch. That, and the removal of the dislike count of course. The quality content is still here, we just need to be very disciplined to find it, without getting trapped into watching the junk.