Re:YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism
by vernie on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:24PM
(#20288771)
Does YouTube have a "muted words" feature like Twitter does? I'd love to be able to block "Ben Shapiro", "Jordan Peterson" and "destroys".
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Re:YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism
by dang on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:52PM
(#20289032)
Would you please not post political flamebait, or any flamebait, to HN? We're trying for better than that here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: I'm dismayed to see that you've posted many unsubstantive comments recently. Could you please not do that? As I said, the hope is for this site to be a bit better than internet default. We can't do that if established users don't take care of it.
Re:YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism
by cameronbrown on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @10:24PM
(#20291239)
I can understand wanting to hide politics. But JP is such a misrepresented character. He makes motivational content helping guys put their lives back together, nothing inherently bad or political.
Re:YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism
by NathanWilliams on Thursday June 27, 2019 @02:38AM
(#20292219)
Agreed. Each to their own, but I am tired of seeing JP recommended because I watched one Joe Rohan video once. I click not interested on each JP video, but still get recommendations. It is quite frustrating.
Re:YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism
by switchbak on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @05:16PM
(#20289293)
Hell, I'd even enjoy a filter that analyzes the audio and filters out anything that's below a given (low) bar of sensible discourse. I wonder how hard it would be to categorize the really awful rhetoric? It's very formulaic.
Maybe give me a slider like the old SlashDot days so I could fine tune it depending on my mood :)
Re:YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism
by tootahe45 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:30PM
(#20288821)
I think it's called not consuming political content.
Re:YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism
by madrix999 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:47PM
(#20288991)
Or they could stop recommending strawman alt-right content when watching anything remotely leftist
Re:YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism
by MBCook on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:31PM
(#20288835)
I don’t consume ANY political content of any kind on YouTube. Or news.
But it still recommends both to me, and I hate it.
Re:YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism
by nostalgk on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @05:05PM
(#20289182)
At least for me, consuming any content related to my hobbies results in political content being recommended to me, even despite my avoidance of political videos in their entirety throughout the lifetime of my YouTube account.
Re:YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism
by sosuke on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:32PM
(#20288838)
I've never ever click anything on YouTube that isn't something I absolutely enjoy.
All of my political YouTube views are in Incognito mode. Works great so far.