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Re:Tell HN: YouTube's web UI just got even worse by bionsystem on Friday October 28, 2022 @10:59AM (#33372195)
Funny because it's been a few months that the algorithm has been getting worse at giving personal suggestions. I used to have a lot of videos I enjoyed on my feed (maybe 75% of the time I didn't have to scroll to find something I'd be willing to watch) and now I often end up scrolling a lot to find a suitable suggestion. And when I watch one all I get as a suggestion is all of the things I didn't want before + another video from the same channel of the video I just watched.

I don't know if people experience the same but I feel like I'm just being fed whatever is trending now instead of things I actually want to watch.

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Re:Tell HN: YouTube's web UI just got even worse by YourCupOTea on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:05AM (#33372287)
My suggestions have become increasingly stale. Before it felt like they were trying to work in related videos but now it is just the same 30-50 videos on the home page for the last 3 weeks.
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Re:Tell HN: YouTube's web UI just got even worse by denton-scratch on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:12AM (#33372390)
> getting worse at giving personal suggestions

I agree; which is astonishing, given how bad it was before. I wish there were some way I could actually tell it what I'm interested in watching; but no, I have to let it infer my preferences using it's "algorithms".

Even searching fails, even if I type in the full name of the documentary I want to watch. You really have to bend over backwards to make a literal search for the title of a show give you a completely different show, with a completely different title.

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Re:Tell HN: YouTube's web UI just got even worse by iLoveOncall on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:19AM (#33372499)
I've been hearing this criticism of "the suggestions are getting worth" for so long that, if it was actually true, YouTube would be only suggesting videos you actively hate by now.

My suggestions are still totally fine, as they have always been.

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