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Yeah but then how do you find what to watch next? Some of the most fun I have on YouTube is going down random rabbit holes and discovering new things. How do yo
by dyauspitr 2y ago
Yeah but then how do you find what to watch next? Some of the most fun I have on YouTube is going down random rabbit holes and discovering new things. How do you do that without recommendations? There’s no way I want to start at the public recommendations/trending page. It’s always terrible.
- gsf_emergency 2y agoIt seems to me that pruning the watch history (vs just turning it off) has a noticeable effect on the recs. You might even want to build an AI to optimize your watch history :)
- 082349872349872 2y agoBack when I was actively trying to "steer" my youtube bubble, it seemed like my efforts took a week or two to take effect; maybe suitably pruning watch history could reduce that time constant a bit? (then there are the paid recommendation slots — those were fairly obvious when I had my bubble over in some other script, but latin-character vids were always pushed in the same placings)
- gsf_emergency 2y agoCurrent side hobby is to see if rec engine will turn up more HN-like channels like this one https://youtu.be/CepSVdTYXNc https://youtu.be/CepSVdTYXNc
- ryandrake 2y agoI watch what I subscribe to, and what I search for, and that's it. The whole point of turning off recommendations and suggestions is to browse the web deliberately, without algorithms pushing things at you. I consider "discovery" to be an anti-feature that I don't want.