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Re:Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommenda... by sigstoat on Thursday September 17, 2020 @02:39PM (#24508360)
> They could probably infer that if I'm watching comedy ... I don't want to watch some guy's channel about bassists that they've tried to get me to watch 100 times prior.

davie504 is basically a musically-themed comedy act, so this doesn't seem that unreasonable.

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Re:Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommenda... by encom on Thursday September 17, 2020 @03:14PM (#24508713)
Urgh him. I watch a lot of music videos (as in videos about making music + music theory). I can not get this guy off my recommends. He has the personality of a sofa cushion. I cannot understand why he's popular.

Other than that, I'm pretty happy with my recommends. I think the Google spooks have built a good file on me.

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Re:Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommenda... by retox on Thursday September 17, 2020 @08:39PM (#24511716)
I use this firefox addin, it put a cross next to user comments and videos and lets you hide videos and comments from those users/channels in the recommended videos, searches etc;

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-clean...

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