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Their creativity in thinking up new annoyances (e.g. undesired playing of videos if you merely hover the selection to a video) is infinite.
I just ignore them completely now except for when browsing music. They often don't even help when watching serial things (e.g. part 1, 2, 3), I'll often make the effort to look up a playlist instead. I have also always ignored the front page, so can't say anything about it.
I do wish youtube would let you pick areas of interest and whether you wanted to be recommended based on those areas. If a video fits in an excluded area, you would just get random recs, otherwise you would get recs from around that area. Preferably a mix of recent + old + really old videos that still have good ratings / watch time.
Also they would have less to sort through, etc, if they allowed creators to "archive" a video (because its outdated and maybe some other newer one replaced it). This happens to me all the time. And as a user it would be nice if for example, when some video's audio was bad and then a newer fixed one uploaded, if I was prompted to go to the new one. Similar thing with serial content. It would be nice if creators could establish one video follows another or is related.
Youtube got so much more pleasant.
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All the AI stuff is really still incredibly dumb. Same for Amazon: Buy a mixer and suddenly you will be haunted everywhere by ads offering more mixers Do we know it's actually dumb? Like, given that you just bought a mixer, perhaps in an absolute sense, you're unlikely to buy a second mixer. But relative to everything else that you might buy , perhaps you are very likely to buy a second mixer! There are huge financia…
Just spitballing here, but if you just bought a mixer, your odds of buying another mixer is lower than that of buying a cook book or some other related stuff -- which Amazon could totally figure out mining the other stuff people bought at the same time or shortly after a mixer.
Some percentage of people who just bought a mixer will get a product they aren't satisfied with, for whatever reason. That population has a much higher change of buying another mixer than other people. And mixers are probably far more expensive products.
I have no idea if, in an absolute sense, there's more chance you'll buy a cookbook rather than another mixer, but it wouldn't surprise me either way - on the one hand, obviously most people don't need two mixers. On the other hand, plenty of people who buy a mixer will never buy a cookbook in their life, but literally 100% of people who bought a mixer have proven that they were at some recent point in the market for a mixer. I'm not sure which effect wins out here.
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Its a Lie. I have YT watch history disabled for hmm 2 years now, recommendations "work" just the same.
Disabling it != Removing a single item from the list.
is a lie
My biggest problem with YT recommendations is that they dramatically overweight recent videos when generating the recommendations. I mean, I can spend a week doing nothing but watching (well, listening) to videos of classical music performances, and my recommendations will be full of classical music, exactly as you'd expect. Then I watch one random one-off thing, like "15 funny pitbull fails" and suddenly ALL of my r…
All the AI stuff is really still incredibly dumb. Same for Amazon: Buy a mixer and suddenly you will be haunted everywhere by ads offering more mixers.
and scarily brilliant at the same time. I was looking up Newtek some time ago of the Amiga Video Toaster fame. Googled Wil Wheaton promo video (Will worked for Newtek :o), Penn Jillette (also promoted it) and finally Kiki Stockhammer (spokesperson). Here is where things get interesting. Google spewed 1997 "How To Have Cybersex On The Internet" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBDKEn-TeQg as the result for Kiki haha, why would it do that? Turns out this "instructional video" was made using Video Toaster and features one of the iconic special effect transitions
https://youtu.be/PBDKEn-TeQg?t=9s
here on Toaster demo reel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1OVWfmynPw&feature=youtu.be...
so what does it have to do with Kiki Stockhammer? This transition is Kiki doing poses on the green screen. Google search somehow connected this information together and was able to recognize Kiki Stockhammers silhouette on random youtube meme video :o !
This isnt the first time I got image search results that could only happen if Google was analyzing actual image content. Microchip part searches often return pictures of random boards featuring that particular IC despite no bom list in the html, Google is OCRing images and recognizes part numbers. Same with faces, cars etc.
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Thanks for sharing your personal opinion about videos you've never watched.
Nobody needs to watch an Alex Jones video to have an opinion on the man. He is a garbage person who spreads lies and propaganda. This isn't an opinion, this is Jones' own admission in court of what his program represents.
It's worth noting that this blog post appeared less than 24 hours after BuzzFeed News posted an article explicitly highlighting the conspiracy theories in the recommended section: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/down-y... I helped contribute to that article, feel free to ask any questions!
For me, at least right around the 2016 election...
honestly, i'd like to be the judge of if a theory is crackpot or not. i'm not a kid, i don't need youtube to save me from "bad information". hopefully the change is mild. i've discovered a ton of great stuff through youtube recommendations (especially music! youtube blows everything else away for music discovery).
>honestly, i'd like to be the judge of if a theory is crackpot or not. i'm not a kid, i don't need youtube to save me from "bad information". If your local library or city center decided to prohibit a local white supremacy group from putting up flyers on their billboards recommending Holocaust conspiracy theory materials, would you criticize them the same way? I'm curious about why people seem to have very different…
anyway, i, personally, would still give them (and every1) the space on the billboard. let every1 talk, even the crazy and the hateful.
more generally, i dont think any institution should be privilged over the individual to decide which ideas they get to hear.
just one possible philosophical position, one choice on a spectrum of tradeoffs.
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Employ human curated collections, no algorithms. There is simply no other way that guaranteed kid-friendly content will exist in a space. Otherwise people will game the algorithms and you get Elsa-gate. I’ve talked about this before, but if you have kids, the only surefire solution is curating the videos yourself and downloading them. Then playing them offline. Anything else is a gamble, which may or may not be the r…
YouTube Kids is a separate app and it has an option to only allow human-vetted videos. From the support site: "In this setting, your child will only be able to watch videos, channels and collections that you have hand-picked. Collections are videos and channels grouped by topics, such as science and music, picked by the YouTube Kids teams or our partners."
YT has proven themselves incapable time and time again when it comes to dealing with human support and services. I cannot read PR text from them and just believe it.