YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

Re:YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views by ehsankia on Sunday July 14, 2019 @11:15PM (#20437867)

You can click X on them and quickly remove them. If there's truly way too many (you left it open for hours), you can go to your Google's Activity page, filter youtube and delete everything from today with a button.

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Re:YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views by hombre_fatal on Sunday July 14, 2019 @11:58PM (#20438016)

https://www.youtube.com/feed/history

Good idea to do a full reset periodically anyways to reset your recommendations.

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Re:YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views by gregmac on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:46AM (#20438654)

Is it?

When I go to YouTube on a fresh device without being logged in, it's a pile of steaming clickbait and pop-internet-culture garbage. On my account, by contrast, YouTube is full of mostly great recommendations of high-quality content and I can pretty much always find several new and interesting things to watch should I feel like it.

(I watch stuff like Kurzgesagt, Smarter every day, AvE, Rick Beato, Today I found out, Wisecrack, Wendover Productions, Practical Engineering, Vox, Crash Course, SciShow... that's just from browsing my current recommendations. I would guess none of that shows up for fresh accounts)

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Re:YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views by iforgotpassword on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:48AM (#20438891)

The problem I have is that my recommendations are usually full of stuff I'm already subscribed to. Discovering new things is really hard and usually just happens by reading about it elsewhere.

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Re:YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views by ignaloidas on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:39AM (#20438861)

Clean it of trash and you will receive less trash recommendations. Fully cleaning isn't effective as the average video quality is lower than most HN public would like to watch. Having mostly good videos you like makes it recommend more similar content to you.

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Re:YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views by 0xcde4c3db on Monday July 15, 2019 @09:46AM (#20440734)

It's not just average video quality, it's that (as far as anyone can tell), the algorithm optimizes for expected value of total watch time, as opposed to optimizing for just the likelihood of watching the next video. Basically, the recommendations behave as though they "hope" that you will go down a conspiracy or outrage rabbit hole and binge 12 hours of garbage.

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Re:YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views by ehsankia on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:02PM (#20444009)

For me it correctly "hopes" I'll go down science rabbit holes, which I do. I'm similar to the person above, I watch a lot of educational content, and I also get suggested great content.

Right now I see the follow up to the guy who build his own VGA card, video of someone building a camera that can see wifi, and a PBS video on the "quantum internet". All great suggestions.

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Re:YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views by tobiash on Monday July 15, 2019 @08:56AM (#20440324)

Clicking X on them automatically adds your name and reference to the video into a bucket labelled "investigate further" :-)

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