• twistedtxb@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’m back to subbing to my favorite creators because the algorithm has been so fucking random for the past weeks. Nothing even makes sense.

    I don’t know if that was their intention or not, but the YT homepage is now worthless to me

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I’ve been doing this for a couple years, since recommendations became useless. At least 50% of recommendations are things I’ve already seen (and I do have history turned on). I also use SmartTubeNext, which let’s me filter out shorts.

  • Guy Dudeman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I turned off my Youtube history, and now my YouTube home page is just a message asking me to turn it back on. It’s weird.

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    1 year ago

    I noticed earlier the same video I just “not interested” actually appeared twice on the next refresh not only did they ignore my effort but they doubled down.

  • PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES@sh.itjust.works
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    I feel like the algorithm for recommendations hasn’t changed much in years. It’s decent, better than a lot of other recommendation algorithms. The not interested options have always done jack shit. I can’t count how many times I’ve not interested a video and told it I had already watched it. Only for it to consistently recommend me other videos I’ve already watched. You’d think after the 100th time selecting I wasn’t interested in videos I’ve already watched, that it would get the clue.

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      1 year ago

      I like to listen to creepypasta stories when I’m going to sleep, youtube has been insisting on showing me 2 hour long videos about the Decline of ancient cities… how we get from dumb horror stories to the fall of some empire from 500ad is beyond me.