It's also not SHORTS really trying SHORTS to mix its content nicely SHORTS because i seem to find its recommendations boring SHORTS and often can't find videos that SHORTS i know should be there. Maybe SHORTS i should be using bing search to find youtube videos. Yandex also has a nice video search

And if you start browsing shorts you're bound to get the same <9 creators ad nauseam with duplicates mixed in all the time. It's a terrible experience, honestly.

The YT recommendation system is basically "we know what you want to watch better than you do", so it keeps blatantly ignoring any opposite signal.

No, I do not want to watch wedding videos that I've said I'm not interested in at least 50 times. No, there isn't anyone in my household watching wedding videos.

No, I do not want to rewatch a 6 hour long lecture I watched last month.

Yet it just doesn't bloody care. I am truly terrified to click on anything outside my regular comfort zone for fear that that's what I'll be recommended for the next 12 months. Youtube is the worst product I have to keep paying for — I tried going adblock, but good luck if you have Apple devices. I'd rather be held hostage to Youtube Premium than being brainwashed with ads every 5 minutes.

The worst part is that they recommend 3 views shorts of children uploading random uninteresting moments

> YT search is dogshit now...

All of Google search is dogshit these days. You can't search for anything these days without a crap ton of ads and pages of SEO optimized wrong answers.

s/Google search/the web

And people think chatgpt is going to save us, when all it's going to do is make the web, and therefore search results, ever more nonsensical.