The youtube algorithm is so bad, I say to my screen "why the fuck would I care about this!?" like 10 times a day.

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• raltoid@lemmy.world ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  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.

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • raltoid@lemmy.world ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    When you search for something that doesn’t give tons of results with decent or above views, they keep injecting sectionds of 3 “other videos you might like”. Which makes it really annoying to find something less popular.

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  • Quantenteilchen@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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…

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• Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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 in interested in.

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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    *The former

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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 ✅

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• aleq@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Top #1 sign(s) that you’re spending too much time on YouTube.

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Watching YouTube in the shower for one

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    • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Guilty. I like to call YouTube my morphine drip

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    • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Doesn’t everyone do that?

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  • demeaning_casually@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or too little. As someone else suggested the algorithm would understand me better if I watched more.

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• dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why the fuck would you think this is a showerthought?

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  • demeaning_casually@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cry more, bitch.

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    • dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Answer the damn question coward.

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  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because Lemmy only has political moderation.

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • demeaning_casually@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That doesn’t exist anymore in the client I use.

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    • Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • floral_toxicity@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Please tell me one of the suggestions was Explosions and Fire.

    youtube.com/@explosionsandfire

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• taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I still find it funny it thinks my 3 year old is interested in solar panels.

  The more concerning one was a divorce lawyer for fathers. That shit wasn’t even on my account or my computer, it just assumed daytime watching of kids stuff means a guys going through a divorce, lol.

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• parpol@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Use Grayjay. No ads, no algorithm, all video platforms in one feed.

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  • Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Grayjay is not open-source, sadly; FreeTube and NewPipe are, though they are YT-based.

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    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The source is available, right? You just can’t fork it to include ads? Or you can’t fork it at all?

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    • Geetnerd@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I tried FreeTube and NewPipe, but got tired of YouTube constantly changing things to make them not work. I’m too old to deal with constant tinkering, and have no interest in investing into a Pie Hole.

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No ATV version…

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve been thinking – somebody should make a 3rd party YT front page with its own algorithm. Google would probably be livid but we do already have alternarive front ends.

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