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Re:YouTube is littered with mass-produced videos made by aut... by icebraining on Friday April 13, 2018 @10:44AM (#16830420)
If you remove a recommendation, it has a link saying "tell us why", and you can say "don't recommend me videos based on video X" (X being the video that YT used to generate that suggestion).

I find YT's recommendations a bit myopic (too focused on what I've watched in the past few days), but I literally don't have any clickbait or other crap videos, it's actually pretty OK.

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Re:YouTube is littered with mass-produced videos made by aut... by solarkraft on Friday April 13, 2018 @12:14PM (#16831385)
Oh no. You mentioned it.

I've used it hundreds of times, but since "clickbait bullshit" isn't an option, there are 3 and they're pretty dumb it probably won't learn any time soon. It sometimes comes pretty close to driving me away from the service.

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Re:YouTube is littered with mass-produced videos made by aut... by VyseofArcadia on Friday April 13, 2018 @12:04PM (#16831277)
Recommendations engines seem to be pretty myopic in general. Buy shoes on Amazon once, and you are a shoe aficionado. Listen to a single metal album on whatever streaming service, and that's all it'll recommend for days or weeks.
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Re:YouTube is littered with mass-produced videos made by aut... by walshemj on Friday April 13, 2018 @01:25PM (#16832023)
Yes I have never seen these strange videos.

I do get slightly annoyed at the repetition of adds I don't really need to see the same Barclays bank add 5 times when watching critical role.

A cute funny gorilla is funny the first time after the 100th time not so much - now if you had an actual good ISA rate I might engage as my current cash isa form Santander is a bit crap.

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