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YouTube should stop recommending garbage videos to users

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Re: YouTube should stop recommending garbage videos to users

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The majority of my YouTube recommendations are videos I’ve already watched , despite there being innumerable videos in the back catalogues of my subscriptions I have not seen. My wife has the exact same problem. Surely I haven’t seen all of YouTube. I would love if it recommended me things I would be remotely interested in watching, even if they were “garbage” over this. At this point I would almost prefer sketchy co…

inject(tempermonkey/ublock/stylish etc) those two styles to at least be able to quickly spot visited links, mod color according to own preferences

    injectStyle('#watch7-sidebar .video-list-item a:visited .title {color: #141761;}');
    injectStyle('a.yt-uix-sessionlink:visited {color: #141761 !important;}');

Re: YouTube should stop recommending garbage videos to users

#72
YouTube is toxic for humans, because it is not a platform serving humans. It is a platform serving copyright holders and advertisers. Next video playing means copyright levy going somewhere to someone, one more ad impression (interesting glitch had been present in Germany unil recently where copyright holders were too greedy for such arrangement to operate, only proving how low priority, if any at all, a human user is). Trends and moods are being traced globally only to accumulate the both. What audio and video will be presented to a human is absolutely no concern for anyone - whichever will sustain the inflow of the copyright levies and ad impressions.
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