Raoul97533
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2005 to 2010 was the golden age of youtube, change my mind...
Jan 16, 2025 8:13 AM
Raoul97533
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2005 to 2010 was the golden age of youtube, change my mind...
VodkaReindeer
I'm happy with the youtube algo. Maybe it's because I mainly use my subs and only rely on the front page occasionally.
NChomsky
And the YouTube AI gestapo censorship algo is SUPER FUCKING AGGRESSIVE. Just try using terms like "Israeli Terrorism" or "American Terrorism" and watch it not even bother to shadow ban your post, it'll just straight up fucking delete it in ~5 seconds. But it deletes far less controversial writing, too. It has turned the comment sections into little more than ultra sanitized human-drone speak.
theimgurappsucksballs
I must have somehow clicked on one of those shitty AI generated fake movie trailers cause that's all it gives me now
Rabidbacon
I found that when that happens, I go into my history and delete it. That greatly reduces the algorithms recommending similar vidoes.
DecapodianSaysWoopWoopWoopWoop
Right click, open in incognito mode.
brickius
Stuff that interests you cannot be monetized. The algorithm is not designed to show you what you want to see, it's designed to sell you stuff under the guise of showing you what you want to see
DerpyBestPrincess
Then I seriously wonder why I constantly get recommended channels with under 1000 views in my niche tech interests then? Because I can assure you, not a single one of the github and gaussian splatting channels make them money.
TheSoapyJoo
This is likely confermation bias. You're just noticing the click bait because you don't like it. If you want suggestions for stuff you'll like then you need to manually search for it. Suggestions will get better if you do that.
mbq7
The algorithm is not working _for you_, it is working _on you_ to control your money spending behaviours.
rihani3
I like watching engineering videos on a bunch of subjects, including transportation infrastructure.
YouTube is just: "OMG, you like TRAINS!? I'm going to constantly try and feed you crappy shaky 1 minute trainspotter videos for the next decade. And nothing you do can convince me to stop!"
NappaTheFriendlyGhost
I mostly watch challenge runs of video games and game related news from people I like but one time I clicked a video talking about some controversy surrounding one such person thinking "oh no! what happened?" and it was just some anti-woke nutjob ranting about how coming out as aro/ace will kill her viewership because people only watch her because she's a woman... plot twist: it didn't. What did change was my suggested content for like 2 months.
deathsausage
Dude I like gun jesus on forgotten weapons because I like the way he explains things and it's funny what he gets excited about.... so I get recommended so many rednecks shooting drink bottles...
coolbrood
I once accidentally clicked on a Big Bang Theory clip and YouTube thought it was my favourite show for MONTHS
JustaLawAbidingCitizen
The thing I hate the most is that it constantly loops back on itself. I don't want to watch the same fucking video over and over. I had to purge my watch history to get it to stop. And the fucking "personalized ads". I had to turn that off too because I was getting the exact same ad over and over. I was losing my mind
superdinglebudgie
itsameeeee
i always delete trash from my watch history, it seems to help a bit
gummyloaf
For those that don’t know, 2 easy ways to get rid of shitty suggestions. History, if you click something, and know it’s the reason you get terrible YT suggestions, go into your history and fully remove the watch. It might suggest the video again, but it’ll stop suggesting based on watching it in the first place. The meatball ... menu is the more known one. It seems to work less than History removal, but don’t recommend channel and not interested seem to at least remove specific suggestions
BigRobbo
I find youtube weirdly starts recomending very right wing channels to me every three months or so it then takes a solid week of "not interested" and "don't recomend this channel" for it to go away again.... but all the studies that show social media has right wing bias are fake right?
mijitdragun
Because I work with buffoons who loudly listen to Joe Rogan and share their narrow-minded views I keep getting fed Right Wing Media and it's pissing me off.
AndroidSoul
Nah, youtube just really likes to feed everyone right wing media because it gets the most engagement. I assume it's the combination of tricking normies into an infinitely self-perpetuating media ecosystem and that the left is more willing to argue in comments, being generally more literate and informed
mijitdragun
Gosh when you put it that way I'm down to believe it's a combination of things. Goddamn tech oligarchy.
MerriMod
After "The Acolyte" finished airing, I watched a single video discussing its overall writing structure, given that it was a flawed attempt at writing a mystery story. YouTube then decided "Oh, you hate women! Here's an avalanche of vile bigots and incels we platform for some reason!". I guess it's just linking the sort of videos other users who watch Acolyte-related content have on their lists, but it frankly says a lot that it didn't even give me other Star Wars content - just misogyny.
symbolon
I don't understand how Google won the lawsuit against Viacom. Youtube was mostly just pirated shit back then and I say that as a proud pirate.
Justbreakshit
Photo of man with laser eyes... truth will shock you 1/2
afterdarkart
@OP I hovered over a video while I wasn't looking that I would never watch, didn't click, and it started auto playing just the video. So now I have 10 videos from that dudes channel as recommendations.
CaptainThePirate
I make it a habit to watch my own videos once when I upload them, and YouTube now loves to constantly feed me content from the “let’s plays from unsuccessful YouTubers” genre.
HeywouldJablowme
I've watched TMR EVERYDAY for years. YouTube refuses to put Sam Seder on my front page. I always have to thier channel.
CitizenPrime
I'm very much on the left leaning side but I've noticed YT is happily pushing alt-right influencers. I often clean my YT history and it still comes through. Before anyone thinks they're clever, I'm mostly subscribed to techtubers and edutubers.
JadeNB1729
Too late, I already think I'm clever.
CitizenPrime
Fair
lordmaxwell
I just want to watch some relaxing gardening stuff on occasion why am I being forwarded to alt right homesteads and hydroponic weed?!
bakerguy1337
Youtubes search function is trash these days. It even shows the same videos when you keep scrolling.
KileyBarker
Am I the only one that really likes their youtube recommendations? It feels like it's always giving me banger music and content I like. Whenever I downvote a song I don't like on the youtube music app it immediately skips the song and never plays it again, too, and tends to not play similar songs.
leicanthrope
I'm still trying to figure out why my Youtube routinely suggests random clips (usually just one at a time) in a handful of languages that I've never used.
johnvictor
This sucks as a fan of WH40K because there's this absurd overlap with fucking Nazis and 40K.
madjo
Right click or tap on the three dots, and click "don't recommend channel" or "not interested".
I'll keep fighting Algoritmo.
SimpHunterM
It never works
SaintSleepyWeasel
I'm constantly bombarded by right mens health bullshit. I have banned the channel every time and I STILL GET JOE ROGAN... I watched one god damn video from Jordan Peterson because I was interested in lobsters ... Not his lobsters, just lobsters in general. I like the videos where he puts a notch in them and gives them a snack.
BlindGardener
Algorithmo counts that as ‘engagement’ for some fucking reason.
ProppaGanda
Yeaa, it does nothing
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Maulak
Yeah no, I regularly press so t recommend channel and get another 2 videos from the same channel within the next 20 shorts
BigOrangeCats
I have a user muted in imgur and it still tells me every time they have a viral post. Which is every day because he’s an employee or nepo child of the owners or something. Just the way websites treat their users nowadays, it’s made me leave for a year before because it’s so obnoxious. Stop shoving content down our throats that we don’t want, why is that so hard?
theGrumptastic
Or delete the video from watch history
johnvictor
This is the most important, do what madjo recommended but delete it from your history. That helps significantly.
Sulexar
Take your own advice and try it. Let us know how it goes. (we already know. this is for you.)
madjo
It seems to work just fine for me. I've blocked many channels from my Youtube home page.
Sulexar
Which would be great if we were talking about the don't recommend channel feature, and not the recommendation algorithm.
BrayerIncognito
YouTube doesn't listen to stuff like that. I did a test once where I repeatedly flagged a specific advert as being "inappropriate", got a "confirmation" that I won't be shown the advert again, to only be shown the advert over and over.
Sulexar
Completely different system.
madjo
You're right, it doesn't work with adverts, but it does work with normal videos.
Raoul97533
huh, did not know that was a thing...
johnvictor
Check your history with regularity, especially if you hover over a video for longer than 1 second.
ananfro
Don’t worry. It does fuck all. But you can think it does something
DerpyBestPrincess
As a content creator, I can assure you it works VERY WELL and as intended. But you have to be consistent with it. Not just once. You're LOWERING the possibility, not removing it.
madjo
I don't know what to tell you, but it has worked for me, so far. If I see something on my youtube homepage that I'm not interested in, I tap those three dots, tap "not interested" or "don't recommend channel", and those videos don't appear on my homepage anymore.
Now, I don't know if it works if you watch the video and then click "don't recommend". But I do it before even watching. Usually based on the title and the thumbnail I know if something is for me or not.
ontarioOT
It's not perfect, but it does have some impact on recommended or autoplay videos.
madjo
I would advice anyone to turn off Autoplay. Stay in control what you watch
ontarioOT
Agreed, especially as it was found to push people towards right-wing channels in a very short time span.
ucandcantunc
YouTube is becoming total
Trash just like the rest of the internet.
DerpyBestPrincess
In their defence, YouTube was a money drain since day one, losing millions every year. It was either shut it down, or let Google buy it and try making it profitable. When Google bought it, it was still losing millions. It's just recently they've started making money from it. It's either this way or nothing at all.
BrayerIncognito
Heaven forbid you watch something that's slightly outside of your usual blend of content consumption!! The super aggressive way it jumps on anything different and spams your recommendation feed with similar content actually puts me off wanting to look at any more of it. "Oh, you just so happened to watch 10 seconds of a video that doesn't fit your usual viewing? Well bend over and buckle up because we're gonna ram that stuff up your ass for weeks, whether you like it or not"
jetah
open that type of content in a private tab.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
"You accidentally clicked on 'wokeness is destroying video games', when you were actually trying to tell me to never show that channel again? That's cool. Here's more anti-wokeness shit, a bit of PragerU, and three Jordan Peterson videos."
Akintunde
Whenever I try to watch PirateSoft, it eventually autoplays ThePrimeTime. I like him, but for some reason the moment that happens, EVERY suggestion/autoplay becomes right wing garbage. He's a fucking programmer. Why.
farfie
Viewer statistics probably.
Akintunde
If only "don't show me this shit" actually worked on right wing content, but rage bait seems basically immune to being blocked since it generates so many clicks.
HoneNathan
On the other hand I wish it would stop only showing me the same shit I've already seen!
whitefoxkei
I like rewatching stuff I've seen already, but usually not an hour after I just saw it. If a song or something catches my interest I might watch the video a couple times, but not every ten minutes.
numonster
Even if your cursor hoovers over something it counts as watching it... gods forbid you knock the mouse on the way to the bathroom and all of a sudden it's all "SCANDOLOUS REDDIT STORIES!"... give me my cooking and gaming channels back please.
johnvictor
Watch one political video, feed fills up with it and usually it's RWNJ videos.
Vlaatu
Oh, you scrolled back to that bible-passages reading in order to mark the channel as "Do not recommend ever again"? Clearly you want even more channels that read you bible-passages!
Leucienweaver
"Oh, you like PirateSoftware? Maybe you'll like Soda Poppin'!" *Watches 30 seconds, decides it's not for me* "Here're 40 videos on Soda Poppin' being an armchair gameplay analyst."
Debadguy
Me curiously wanting to know who the fuck Joe Rogan is, and then immediately being shown far-right fuck the left nonsense for months.
DerpMeister
Just like Amazon and Google: "We know you bought a toilet seat recently, so here are a thousand adds for toilet seats." Bro, how many toilets do you think I have in my household that need a new seat? How many ADDITIONAL toilets you think I got in my household that need a new seat RIGHT AFTER I just bought a new one?
whitefoxkei
That seems like a holdover from when Amazon was just a digital bookstore. It clearly does not work for household fixtures lol
leicanthrope
Don't order an urn off Amazon, unless you want your recommendations to get downright apocalyptic.
BrayerIncognito
I really hate that about Amazon
Ecxusemeisthisnametaken
I have found that deleting things that don't interest you from your history is a good way to prevent this from happening.
101Medic
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ALTEFFFOUR
This. As soon as I realize I made a mistake by clicking on a video, I open my history and delete it.
Filolial
I don't have that issue personally, but I also use the "Not interested" / "Don't recommend channel" options YouTube has (when logged in), you don't even have to click open the video, just use the kebab menu.
fryedman
for some reason the mobile app doesn't have the don't recommend channel button. sometimes a i get so sick of a creator i put down my phone so I can block them on my pc.
Kehy
It took me 3 days of *aggressively* doing so to finally get the equestrian stuff off my feed for a week. I do not care about your tall cows. It's still trying to put equestrian stuff on my feed, but at a reduced rate
ImSynnical
And YouTube peddling right wing media, I’m as fucking far left as it gets and I get non stop right wing content it’s so fucking shameless the way it peddles it
AntiProtonBoy
That’s because you watch right wing stuff to outrage yourself.
ImSynnical
But I don’t I watch left wing stuff that shits on the right wing like legal eagle for instance
BrayerIncognito
Sky News did an experiment where they set up a fake account and pretended to be a 13yo Boy. They simply allowed the algorithm to feed them content via YouTube Shorts, and within just over an hour they were being shown numerous Andrew Tate videos without seeking out his content and despite him being banned on the platform at that time.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/andrew-tate-controversial-influencer-pushed-on-to-teens-youtube-shorts-and-instagram-video-feeds-12849572
ImSynnical
Ruling class needs more sycophants