YouTube has the worst commenting system as well. Oh a highlighted reply in a 500 comment thread I never commented on? Great just what I didn’t need YouTube!
If you have an account and are subscribed to YouTubers you want to see regularly, just visit https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions
You choose what YouTube serves you, much like visiting your subscribed communities overview on Lemmy!
Bonus tip: If you’re on Linux, install
webapp-manager, add a webapp for the address mentioned with a browser of your choosing, its own addons if you’d like such as Return YouTube Dislike and Enhancer for YouTube!I’m so glad I never have to deal with youtube’s idiotic algorithm
You’re spending too much time on YouTube if you have the opportunity to yell at it 10 times in one day.
Yeah you are right I just move away from YouTube altogether again.
The algorithm is a combination of things they think you want to watch and things they want you to watch. The latter are things that tend to keep people watching, increasing ad revenue for youtube.
*The former
Nope, the latter was correct.
Lat her? I hardly know her.
How old are you, Adam?
Get that boomer joke outta here!
Your mom said I was old enough last night. Boom roasted.
Okay you know what? Fair.
Tell you a problem I’ve had with it recently: search.
Used to be, you’d search Youtube for something like 'how to make a zero clearance throat plate for table saw" and you’d get pages of useful results, then some not so great results, then things that make you say “no not that kind of throat.” and by then it’s just giving you results with at least one of the search terms in it.
Now, you’ll get maybe ten relevant results, then about ten results that have absolutely nothing to do with your search, just…stuff it would clutter your home page with. Like you’re not trying to find information. You can feel that “increase watch time at all costs” shit.
When you search for something that doesn’t give tons of results with decent or above views, they keep injecting sections of 3 “other videos you might like”. Which makes it really annoying to find something less popular.
One trick I usually use to get at least another ten or so relevant results is to explicitly click the “videos” Tag below the search. This way (at least on mobile) I actually have a chance of finding the video I was hoping to find…
Top #1 sign(s) that you’re spending too much time on YouTube.
Watching YouTube in the shower for one
Guilty. I like to call YouTube my morphine drip. It’s quite literally an addiction for me on the same level as drugs have been for me, but more addictive.
Some drugs are cheaper too
Convention be damned, you’ll never take my shower phone
Doesn’t everyone do that?
Or too little. As someone else suggested the algorithm would understand me better if I watched more.
You need to clean your watch history. Remove any video you dont want affecting the recommendations and if you accidentally watch some video like that then you need to remove it from history. If you dont have history on then I have no clue how it recommends stuff though. I dont think it bases it on every single thing on the history or maybe it weights recent videos more heavily.
I recently had it recommend way too much certain kinds of videos after i watched a bunch of them and it reverted to what it recommended earlier when i removed most of the ones i watched earlier.
I don’t have history on, I keep my “subscriptions” list curated to perfection so every morning I find interesting videos to watch/listen while I make coffee
that is also good way to do it, i used to do that too until i noticed the recommendations were actually worth my time. I dont think there is too much malicious meddling with them either since I have had videos recommended i dont think any corporate executive would even want me to see but still i try to be wary.
Do what I do fuck the YouTube algorithms and just only use the subscription part. I use the “recommended” part once every few months if that. Got my subscriptions on my smart tube and that’s all I need.
I watch so much niche stuff that it’s hard for YouTube to sneak their suggestions in.
- someone nerding out about history
- someone nerding out about science
- someone nerding out about Star Trek
- ✅ EPIC FAIL COMPILATION ✅
Interesting, I’ve always found it to work incredibly well for me, to the point I generally only watch the stuff it recommends. Like, out of the 6 videos it shows me, maybe 1 every now and then is something I don’t care about. But like, if there’s 4-5 ones I’m interested in out of 6, I think that’s pretty good, and the 2 wild cards are how I tend to find new stuff to be interested in.
Never had this problem with YouTube’s algorithm. If anything, it offers 20 more videos from the same channel after I watch just one.
Are you using the options where you tell it you don’t like this video/don’t recommend this channel/thumbs down the video? There are like three different ways to tell YouTube you’re not interested.
That doesn’t exist anymore in the client I use.
Well while I respect what is probably a privacy or ad block angle, it’s a bit unfair to complain about something not working well for you when you’re not using it the official way, and likely actively making it worse at profiling you.
It’s frustrating, but to make it somewhat work you have to keep using the “Not interested” and “Don’t recommend channel” options, and go into watch history and remove ones that you click on by mistake or find out you don’t like while watching.
Switch to peertube mate
It seems to know my tastes so well, most recommendations are either things I already watch, or things so similar that even the people in them look and sound almost identical to the things I watch. Like I have found at least 2 other chemistry channels that I thought were NileRed until I actually looked at the channel names. And no, one of them is not NileBlue, his other channel.
Please tell me one of the suggestions was Explosions and Fire.
And don’t forget his second channel, https://youtube.com/@ExtractionsAndIre
