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It is awful. Recommendations either don’t surface your content at all or hyper-fixate in something you searched once. I saw a couple of videos from a Chinese t
by torben-friis 1y ago
It is awful. Recommendations either don’t surface your content at all or hyper-fixate in something you searched once.
I saw a couple of videos from a Chinese travel blogger and now I’m getting Chinese military parades, speeches by Fidel Castro and shorts with “tough guy moments” by Putin.
It’s not ideological, you can watch a bench press video next and then it’s all Joe Rogan and “feminist put in her place”.
It’s like it is programmed to give you the twisted monkey paw version of anything you wish for.
- coldpie 1y agoYou can remove videos from your history and they won't impact your recommendations anymore.
- torben-friis 1y agoI know, but I think a corporation that controls my phone, email, searches, travel, purchases, photo gallery and a few other things could manage a more educated guess.
- Taek 1y agoThey could, but surprisingly they don't. The YouTube algorithm is remarkable in it's stubbornness to only use your watch history.