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I just reset profile in youtube settings periodically, their recommendations are way too sticky, like literally the same videos are shown for months even if I watched them already. I wonder what all the highly paid "ML/AI engineers" are doing.
Probably finding ways to automatically take down videos
I honestly just wish the recommendations were better . I watched an interview that Curtis Yarvin gave on Tucker Carlson (about an hour long...interesting at least). Now youtube is sending me all these conservative "talk show" people that I have absolutely 0 interest in. Same thing: I think I watched some video about guns a while ago. I think guns are neat, but I absolutely do not care about watching dozens of videos…
You have to work on them a little bit but once you do, the recommendations are incredibly high quality. Just make sure to hide the stuff you don’t want to see on your homepage. I go as far as removing dumb videos from my watch history (or watching them in incognito in the first place). I find that most people who complain about the YouTube algorithm expect it to just work out of the box with zero tuning. It’s not tha…
Unfortunately there's always (in my experience) at least one out of place recommendation, usually for something that's entirely unrelated but trending amongst the overall userbase.
If it were possible to remove just those random lures along with all live broadcasts the recommendations would likely be uniformly high quality.
Anyway, congrats on the extension. This seems especially helpful on mobile where Youtube seems to want to draw you away form the video you actually came to watch.
If i could group my channels and my watching pattern, it may alleviate my trepidation about confused algorithms.
I honestly just wish the recommendations were better . I watched an interview that Curtis Yarvin gave on Tucker Carlson (about an hour long...interesting at least). Now youtube is sending me all these conservative "talk show" people that I have absolutely 0 interest in. Same thing: I think I watched some video about guns a while ago. I think guns are neat, but I absolutely do not care about watching dozens of videos…
I was looking to buy a leather belt about 6 months ago. I found the belt and bought it (am very happy, thank you). Now it appears for the rest of my life I will be getting leather belt advertisements. On Facebook, Youtube, Google, everywhere. The whole reason why I wanted a quality belt was so that it would last me the rest of my life if cared for properly. I intend to never buy another. And what's worse is that it's…
Good denim can last years and degrades stylishly.
It's really too bad that there's a $825 Billion apparel industry that thrives on fads and replaceable goods.
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Alternatively, the Faustian bargin we made with the FAANGs was that we would provide our data and they would give us useful ads. If I bought a nice leather belt, perhaps I should get ads for nicer leather shoes or some other item, maybe a leather polish/waterproofing kit to keep my belt nice and new. The failure of the Advertising-Industrial complex in that regard has been disappointing to say the least.
To do that you have to give up more information about what you actually bought which IMO is an even bigger privacy issue than what we're currently giving away.
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I was looking to buy a leather belt about 6 months ago. I found the belt and bought it (am very happy, thank you). Now it appears for the rest of my life I will be getting leather belt advertisements. On Facebook, Youtube, Google, everywhere. The whole reason why I wanted a quality belt was so that it would last me the rest of my life if cared for properly. I intend to never buy another. And what's worse is that it's…
There should be more of a market for durable clothes. Or a cultural movement. It needs a hip name or something to latch on to like "durabalism" to go along with a hipster's sense of minimalism or nostalgia. Good denim can last years and degrades stylishly. It's really too bad that there's a $825 Billion apparel industry that thrives on fads and replaceable goods.
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You have to work on them a little bit but once you do, the recommendations are incredibly high quality. Just make sure to hide the stuff you don’t want to see on your homepage. I go as far as removing dumb videos from my watch history (or watching them in incognito in the first place). I find that most people who complain about the YouTube algorithm expect it to just work out of the box with zero tuning. It’s not tha…
This is super helpful but also very interesting. When technology fails to adapt to people and meet their needs, people must adapt to technology and meet its needs.
Does anyone have a ublock origin filter they use to block YouTube recommendations and/or comments?
This is what I use: youtube.com##.ytp-suggestions youtube.com##.ytp-pause-overlay youtube.com##.videowall-endscreen youtube.com###related youtube.com##ytd-comments
I tried to fix it, adding these to yours seems to work okay:
youtube.com###related:upward(#secondary)
youtube.com##:root:not(:fullscreen) video:matches-css(left: 0px):style(object-fit: fill!important; width: 100%!important; height: auto!important;)Honestly, that's where I get some of the most use out of YouTube, the recommended videos main page. Sometimes I'm annoyed they aren't showing me enough variation based on my subscriptions and past likes. I'm not sure why I'd want this. Sometimes I'm watching a technical presentation/talk by someone and I'll get other talks of theirs on the recommended videos for that video page, which is useful, or followup videos on…
If you just a single time watch a video out of your normal categories, yt will never forget. No matter how many times you click not interested. Also, some of the horrific clickbait thumbnails and titles it suggests annoys me. So avoiding those is one less thing to care about. Also, much of the problems with yt isn't how they allow dangerous videos to be on their platform, but how they surface them to lots of people b…