YouTube uses the same recommendation algorithm as Gmail.
“Oh you bought a mattress? You must want more mattress content and to know every time someone talks about mattresses.”
people use gmail’s web ui?
watch 30 videos on a subject that you’re super interested in.
Youtube: crickets
Accidentally click the wrong video and watch 3 seconds of it before going back and watching something else
Youtube: OH, YOU LOVE THAT THINK YOU ACCIDENTALLY CLICKED? YOU LOVE IT AND WANT TO SLEEP WITH IT AND RUB IT ON YOUR NIPPLES? WONDERFUL WE’RE GONNA DO NOTHING BUT SPEND THE NEXT THREE WEEKS SHOVING IT DOWN YOUR THROAT BECAUSE WE’RE SO MAGNANIMOUS.
And it will never recommend you any new topic you might actually want to learn about either.
You can delete a video from your history and it will stop the algo from doing that. But yeah, it’s a really annoying algo.
I don’t even know why stuff appears. Recently I got a bunch of NASCAR come up. I think it’s because I follow the NLS in Germany and watched an Obama video and that mooshed motorsport and the USA into the algorithm.
YouTube started doing a thing for me a few days back where every video that I moused over for a few seconds counted as a view and went into my watch history. Only took me about 30 min to notice because my algorithm suddenly turned to shit and I was getting the most content-slop recommendations. I could actually tell something was off with my account they were so bad. Looked at my watch history and noticed like 15 videos I never watched. Removed all of them and it went back to normal, then I had to Google how to turn off mouseover autoplay to make it stop.
Me, never leaving the Subscription tab: ???
I clicked on a couple of Jerma videos years ago, and I have now given up clicking ‘not interested’ every time he pops up again. I have begun suspecting ‘active disinterest’ being interpreted as a form of interest. Like, there’s no saying no, there’s only interacting vs. not interacting.
I have clicked not interested on some vinny vinesauce channel about 200 times, and eventually started clicking don’t recommend channel.
Now I get recommended “Vinny vinesauce clips” don’t recommend channel “Vinny vinesauce best moments” don’t recommend channel “Vinny vinescause…” im going to lose my mind
I don’t know how the algorithm is still so bad and seemingly based on like single keywords
Just watch in a private tab. If you find a channel worth following that way, then it can be promoted to “subscribed” status
