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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by rz2k on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:09PM (#26655881)
YouTube premium never shows me adds, and downvotes have reliably gotten the AI to stop suggesting a musician or autoplaying a song that I don't like, regardless of their rough membership in a genre I otherwise want to hear.

It makes me feel guilty to downvote someone or their work who's probably a good person, but it's the only reliable way to tune the AI. I get a lot of enjoyment out of music on youtube premium, but would stop using the service if they started airing ads on the pay service, or began serving music in such a way that I couldn't tune the suggestions and automatic play queues.

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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by jlebar on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:19PM (#26655922)
The tweet is clear that you can still downvote videos to tune the algorithm. Dislikes just won't be shown.
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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by youeseh on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @11:12PM (#26656248)
Perhaps they should let paying members see counts.
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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by pushrax on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @11:38PM (#26656419)
Surprisingly, that would be the tipping point that would get me to pay. Dislike ratio is very useful to avoid wasting time.
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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by tomcooks on Thursday April 01, 2021 @02:45AM (#26657308)
That's what YouTube wants eh
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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by rapferreira on Thursday April 01, 2021 @10:05AM (#26660653)
Just going to stop using Youtube at some point.
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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by qiqitori on Thursday April 01, 2021 @04:34AM (#26657988)
I guess this might be the reason they're getting rid of the downvote functionality.

The YouTube community usually doesn't take downvotes as "not interested", but rather as an explicit expression of "this is crap".

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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by ma2rten on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:18PM (#26655919)
When you see the suggestion you can select "not interested" instead.
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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by 252452d on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @11:37PM (#26656415)
Which does nothing, of course.
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Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public disl... by epivosism on Thursday April 01, 2021 @12:14AM (#26656634)
For me, on youtube premium, "not interested" has massive, immediate effects on what is shown in my feed. Try it and see.
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