Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles'

Re:Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles' by stallmanite on Thursday July 16, 2020 @04:00PM (#23863204)

I’ve had basically the identical experience. I swear it even seems to turn off notifications to some of the more obscure channels and I have to turn them back on again. The niche stuff (Engineering, Chemistry, Modular-synth stuff, demoscene stuff, Math, countless others) is YouTube’s strength in my opinion. It’s disappointing that they so strongly discourage that use.

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Re:Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles' by grugagag on Thursday July 16, 2020 @04:18PM (#23863373)

Yes, I have a similar experience. Youtube/Google is shoving down our throats content that is monetized (hence huge channels) and it makes everybody else disappear more or less. We need to index youtube from the outside and take back control. Basically a giant table with channels and last added video would solve that and the link to the last video.

We have to take control back!

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Re:Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles' by Avamander on Friday July 17, 2020 @03:14PM (#23874289)

Those small channels should enable monetization tbh and just recommend adblockers to their viewers. That way the algoritm doesn't punish them. I know Franlab does so and it works.

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