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Removing it from your watch history might be more effective than disliking.

by daelon 2y ago

wruza 2y ago
Agreed, I do both actually. Also “don’t recommend channel” for truly obnoxious ones. I follow through 3-4 of their videos so that they start to appear in the side column and then kill it from there, removing all traces afterwards. In my experience, - Don’t recommend channel - strong flag, but doesn’t modify “interests”. - Not interested - removes this exact video with a very low key tuning of recommendations, if at all. - Dislike - a slightly pronounced signal for recommendations. But still clueless cause no info on why. - Like - you’ll drown in content similar to this, but not the same quality. Get ready to shovel it and miss your previous interests completely. - Comment - similar to like. The default careless youtube experience without all that stopped working around 5 years ago (at least). Can’t imagine using it as is and not degenerating into something inhuman.
- lolc 2y ago
  I'm just glad there are browser extensions that remove all that Youtube dross no questions asked. It's interesting to me that somebody would try and curate their experience in this shitshoveling assault on the nerves that is Youtube recommendations.
  - wruza 2y ago
    It’s completely automatic at this point, I barely notice my actions :) Can you maybe recommend some extensions please? I’m only using unhook (some of) and sponsorblock, but it would be nice to e.g. dislike videos right from the feed or ban channels from their video or a channel page. Oh, and the one that loads X button in history immediately.
    - lolc 2y ago
      Unhook sounds right, but I forget it's there because it just works.
account42 2y ago
Even more effective is not using Youtube or similar algorithmic feeds for content discovery.
- wruza 2y ago
  Simply not using it doesn’t help, ime. So what to use instead?
  - account42 2y ago
    > Simply not using it doesn’t help, ime. I disagree. Consuming less mindless content such as watching videos is always helpful. > So what to use instead? Try recommendations from real humans such as friends or posters in online communities you are part of.

Removing it from your watch history might be more effective than disliking.

by daelon 2y ago

Removing it from your watch history might be more effective than disliking.

Agreed, I do both actually. Also “don’t recommend channel” for truly obnoxious ones. I follow through 3-4 of their videos so that they start to appear in the side column and then kill it from there, removing all traces afterwards. In my experience, - Don’t recommend channel - strong flag, but doesn’t modify “interests”. - Not interested - removes this exact video with a very low key tuning of recommendations, if at all. - Dislike - a slightly pronounced signal for recommendations. But still clueless cause no info on why. - Like - you’ll drown in content similar to this, but not the same quality. Get ready to shovel it and miss your previous interests completely. - Comment - similar to like. The default careless youtube experience without all that stopped working around 5 years ago (at least). Can’t imagine using it as is and not degenerating into something inhuman.

lolc 2y ago
I'm just glad there are browser extensions that remove all that Youtube dross no questions asked. It's interesting to me that somebody would try and curate their experience in this shitshoveling assault on the nerves that is Youtube recommendations.
- wruza 2y ago
  It’s completely automatic at this point, I barely notice my actions :) Can you maybe recommend some extensions please? I’m only using unhook (some of) and sponsorblock, but it would be nice to e.g. dislike videos right from the feed or ban channels from their video or a channel page. Oh, and the one that loads X button in history immediately.
  - lolc 2y ago
    Unhook sounds right, but I forget it's there because it just works.

account42 2y ago

Even more effective is not using Youtube or similar algorithmic feeds for content discovery.

wruza 2y ago
Simply not using it doesn’t help, ime. So what to use instead?
- account42 2y ago
  > Simply not using it doesn’t help, ime. I disagree. Consuming less mindless content such as watching videos is always helpful. > So what to use instead? Try recommendations from real humans such as friends or posters in online communities you are part of.