‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the algorithm (2019)

Re:‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked ... by renlo on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @10:33AM (#25518599)

When I watch junk on YouTube I need to open the link using Chrome's incognito mode.

When are companies going to give us more control over what inputs we give their recommendation algorithms? There should be a button that says "hey, I'm going to watch this because I'm only human, but please, don't show this junk to me". Or, "hey, I understand this content creator has thousands of videos and uploads content daily, but, I'm only interested in this one video, not in their daily vblog from today"

I literally watch 1/3 - 1/2 of all my videos now in incognito mode on YouTube, just because their algorithm is so aggressive when it comes to recommending junk / 'content creator' noise.

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Re:‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked ... by burntoutfire on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @10:50AM (#25518800)

> When are companies going to give us more control over what inputs we give their recommendation algorithms?

My guess is that they'll never do this, because they want you to go bad and watch as much of that junk as possible.

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Re:‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked ... by dave5104 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @11:55AM (#25519525)

I've had pretty good luck simply deleting the junk videos from my watch history. I can't recall ever seeing a similar junk video being recommended after religiously taking that action.

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Re:‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked ... by whywhywhywhy on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @12:22PM (#25519823)

You can on YouTube. You can finally ban channels from your recommendations and tell it now to show you things like that anymore with the submenu by the video thumb.

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