The Orwellian language in this piece is absolutely ridiculous.
On YouTube’s recommendation system
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#162Recommendation on YouTube is somewhat good but search sucks. When you search for something it throws at you random garbage on top of the thing you are actually looking for, think AltaVista vs Google yes Google you own the YouTube. There is no ability to search for videos in playlists and there is no ability to search videos' comments.
Also they say >borderline content—that is content that comes close to, but doesn’t quite violate our Community Guidelines.
TOS can not treat anything as "borderline"; borderline is akin to robbing a bank and then telling a judge your crime was "borderline" because you were out of money and you needed to get your financial situation straight by robbing a bank. My point is TOS and Law are binary either something is allowed or forbidden there is no middle ground.
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#163I fell into a massive YouTube recommendation vortex two 1/2 years ago when my barista basically insisted I take all his Cafe's coffee grounds home and compost them. I had no idea how to compost (he was sick of telling customers it was going into landfill. every. single. day). I now have over 20kg's of worms spread over 30+ worm bins and I'm taking organic residue from all over the district and turning it into valuable soil amendments. I never thought 5 years ago I would now be on the cusp of leaving digital marketing and going into manufacturing soil amendments. Profoundly life changing experience.
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#164This blog post doesn't seem yo answer the hard questions, such as why recommend Plastic Love by Mariya Takeuchi on every video.
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#165For me, it seems like youtube's recommendation system mostly gets stuck in the local optimum. Once you watch a video from a particular channel, it'll keep on recommending the videos from the same channel for months. Soon, the recommendation just consists of stuff from the channels that have you already viewed. You rarely see new types of recommendations.
I see this a lot nowadays. It just keeps recycling the same things and feels stale.
I remember about a year ago, it got into a weird state where I watched an old Cat Power music video, then every time I looked at recommendations on other videos it was recommending it, again and again... I'd watch the video again to hopefully make it go away, and it would still keep recommending it. It was very strange. I ended up just choosing "Don't recommend this" on it.
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#166I assume the reason people find the YouTube's recommendation system less daring about jumping into very different content is a certain amount of caution described at the end of the article.
Basically, when you've accidentally created a white nationalist movement, you tend to ratchet back your ambitions.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, but then Youtube thinks, "He hates that channel!", rather than, "He doesn't want to rewatch old videos." I keep getting old furniture restoration videos in my feed. I've seen them already. How about different channels on the same topic with new videos posted?
you can tell youtube you've already seen it. you hit "not interested" and then click "tell us why" and then hit "i've already seen it".
Thanks. I never got to that step because I didn't know there'd be another question.
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#168For me, it seems like youtube's recommendation system mostly gets stuck in the local optimum. Once you watch a video from a particular channel, it'll keep on recommending the videos from the same channel for months. Soon, the recommendation just consists of stuff from the channels that have you already viewed. You rarely see new types of recommendations.
I stopped liking and interacting with niche stuff because of this, I don’t want it to interfere with my normal patterns. Sounds quite bad, I know.
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#169Be careful with YouTube. For years people have talked about social media's effect on mental health, but personally, I've found the biggest hit to be YouTube. Their recommendation system is really the heart of the beast. It's essentially a dopamine reward system, not too dissimilar from a slot machine at a casino. Pull the lever (refresh the page) and get random results! It sucks you in to a cycle of refreshing, findi…
I had the same problem as well. The unhook extension works great. I also uninstalled the YouTube app on my mobile and only use the browser.
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#170Be careful with YouTube. For years people have talked about social media's effect on mental health, but personally, I've found the biggest hit to be YouTube. Their recommendation system is really the heart of the beast. It's essentially a dopamine reward system, not too dissimilar from a slot machine at a casino. Pull the lever (refresh the page) and get random results! It sucks you in to a cycle of refreshing, findi…
lol bruh have you ever used tiktok