WTF is with that word salad title? AI generation?
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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They just didn't know how to write nowadays, happens when you're not maybe English speaker or have poor vocabulary because you don't read enough
Also a superflous "are".
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
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.
SmartTube is so much better than the official app. Same for Revanced
and NewPipe and FreeTube.
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.
I found a browser addon that just redirects the home page to my subscription page. There was nothing of note on the home page before and there sure as hell isn’t now
Do you remember what the addon was called?
*edit: Nevermind - found it! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-sub-redirect/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search
Same, but am standing strong on my decision. If they want to chase me away, I'll find a different place.
There are alternatives these days. Which is cool.
Even if there were none, I wouldn't budge. Call me stubborn, but I was fine when they moved from wanting a finger to wanting whole hand. But now they want an arm and a leg, preferably part of your soul. Yeah, I can live without it. Most of the content has been deteriorating in quality anyway thanks to their algorithm changes. Number of creators who make content which is not formulaic and is actually useful is shrinking constantly or migrating to other services.
They recently announced they'd be doing this for people with history turned off.
It's so much better.. subscribing I much better than their algorithm.
I subscribe to most channels I enjoy but still appreciate the recommendations as I find a lot of new videos/channels of interest without having to wade through a bunch of low quality/uninteresting content. It's felt pretty stale lately but at least I'm not getting a bunch of right wing propaganda these days.
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.
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.
Yeah, not interested doesn't do much but don't recommend channel is flawless for me
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.
I switched to watching YT in an incognito window.