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There's great content on YouTube but there's a lot of garbage. AI-generated slop, clickbait thumbnails/titles that actually don't payout, sales pitches, and pla
by qwerpy 1y ago
There's great content on YouTube but there's a lot of garbage. AI-generated slop, clickbait thumbnails/titles that actually don't payout, sales pitches, and plain old low-quality garbage. The lack of a thumbs down really makes it hard to avoid these. I realize that thumbs down is also used to punish "wrong" political viewpoints and companies, so it's a hard problem. But as a viewer who never uploads content, it only makes my experience worse.
- Karrot_Kream 1y agoThere's a "I don't want to see content like this" option you can signal on content and I find it works quite well
- bigstrat2003 1y agoIf only they would respect that when you tell them to hide shorts. Drives me crazy that they utterly refuse to let you turn those off.
- boldlybold 1y agoGet a browser extension that does it, I finally looked for one after clicking the "not interested" button one too many times.
- spaqin 1y agoIf you're at getting a browser extension level, you're not too far off from also getting an adblocker and not having to pay for premium.
- wat10000 1y agoMy recommended feed mostly consists of chess, machining, Mario Maker, fighter jets, and assorted other things like that, which is exactly what I want to see. There's some dumb stuff in there, but it's easy to skip over and it learns to recommend what I actually watch. And there is a thumbs-down button, at least for me.
- anton-c 1y agoWell when normal news like NBC just got immediate front page stuff with super low engagement people downvoted the crap outta it because it was showing such preferential treatment. Feels like they deserved it, they bought their way in. Little did we know how far YouTube would go for them.