I've found some good stuff from YouTube recommendations, but the reccs are mostly pretty dumb -- tons of repeats, tons of "hey, here's something EXACTLY LIKE what you just watched." It's nowhere close to as good as the recommendations for TikTok (which seem to read your mind and your subconscious). Would love to see TikTok make a YouTube competitor.
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#22How did Google get the .youtube and .google TLDs?
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#23> For my oldest daughter, it was finding laughter and community with the Vlogbrothers. And for my oldest son, recommendations brought about a better understanding of linear algebra through animated explainers by 3Blue1Brown—with breaks to watch KSI videos.
My first thought reading this was about reinforcing a stereotype as the son learning hard sciences and the daughter watching fun shows about people things.
Did anyone else notice or think about that that?
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#24How did Google get the .youtube and .google TLDs?
> How did Google get the .youtube and .google TLDs while barely using them?
They got it by paying money and meeting the other new-gTLD compliance requirements during the new gTLD gold rush.
None of those requirements involved current use or a forward commitment to heavy use, so the “while barely using it” is irrelevant.
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#25And as I got on YouTube just now, the recommendations are just utter junk. It is a bunch of clickbait on things I don't even like and find annoying and repulsive. This is why I use things like youtube-dl, NewPipe, etc.
I use uBlock Origin to hide every video on the recommendations panel except for what is about to be played next. It is surprisingly great.
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#26How did Google get the .youtube and .google TLDs?
https://icannwiki.org/.youtube
https://icannwiki.org/Brand_TLD
It's pretty strange to me that ICANN allowed the "brand TLD" concept.
I remember being impressed that the Aga Khan has his own TLD under this program:
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#27I've found some good stuff from YouTube recommendations, but the reccs are mostly pretty dumb -- tons of repeats, tons of "hey, here's something EXACTLY LIKE what you just watched." It's nowhere close to as good as the recommendations for TikTok (which seem to read your mind and your subconscious). Would love to see TikTok make a YouTube competitor.
Genuinely curious, would you actually want that product to exist?
I'm at a point where I don't want better recommendations to tell me what to think. I'm already having enough of a challenge keeping my focus with the status quo.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've noticed this too. Occasionally I'll look up a how-to/DIY thing, watch one video for it, and then all my recommendations (even the ones on the front page) revolve around that topic. But it's not like I have a consistent interest in it, it was a one-off.
I can be pretty confident that once I've finished a video, that very same video will be on my YouTube homepage for weeks. It's useless. At this moment, my homepage's first 10 videos include 7 that I've already watched.
Maybe they're being fooled by toddlers who love rewatching the same video over and over again.
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#29Can we get a button to stop recommending videos that have already been watched? On the front page out of 12 videos listed, I've already seen 7 of them and have no need to watch them again.
If you're logged in, hover over the video, click the three dot menu, then select "Not Interested". If you are not logged in you can't do this, for obvious algo manipulation reasons.
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?
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#30Why don't they let me tell them the interests that they are trying to infer? I'd be really happy to review sets of recommendations and indicate the kind of videos i like and the kind i don't.