Everytime I use youtube search now I'm getting disgusting, sexualized recs when I search for a specific topic that is completely unrelated to that crap. I cannot even block these recommendations from the search result list, I cannot block these channels.
Youtube/Google have simply become insane. You're at work, looking for some Youtube coding tutorial, and you get some video with a sexual thumbnail, or something about a disgusting ear disease or something. What the hell Google? Shouldn't these video be marked as sexual/NSFW content at first place?
Deleting youtube view history and turning it off used to fix these things, but not anymore, it doesn't make any difference. I've never seen that, a mainstream, non tabloid, website that forces its user to see sexualized or disgusting content.
Youtube employees here, do you really believe it makes people more likely to watch youtube videos? It doesnt.
I don't want to see "other viewers have also watched these", I don't want to see "for you". I only want to see what is relevant to the query I just made.
Isn't it ironic? Google beat Altavista back in the days because Google search results were more accurate than the competition. But now that Google is basically a monopoly in search, it simply decided to forego its core value for profit and display the user garbage results, results Google think the user might be interested in regardless of the search query, and not results the user explicitly searched for. This isn't a search engine anymore, this is a recommendation engine...