just because i listened to a single track from the Elden Ring soundtrack does not mean I’d like 200 ‘ELDEN RING LORE’ videos shoved in my face. None of them even have <10k views - they’re all like less than 1,000 views.

stop recommending ‘AI voice dubs this song’ videos that also have <10k views jesus christ, I don’t want to hear a shitty version of Frank Sinatra singing the End of Evangelion song.

oh wow I looked up a very specific Frasier clip two months ago?? Thanks for recommending nothing but Frasier videos since that I haven’t watched. God forbid I watch a single Jerma clip or I will be inundated with “Jerma talks chat through making thermite” videos for half a year.

To make matters worse, you hit “don’t recommend this video I don’t like this video” and two days later, the very same video pops up again. I’ve now resorted to just “don’t ever recommend this channel to me again” even for small <10k views videos because that seems to be the only way to permanently prevent the same video from showing up at a later date. jerma-psycho

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    it’s so fucked, just completely non-functional

    the worst thing is when you’ve asked to “never recommend this channel” and then the algorithm goes “ah my mistake here’s the 270 REUPLOAD channels for that channel” and then you nuke all of them but “you watched a video that mentioned the first channel here’s all that channel’s videos again”

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    the jerma shit is insane, it got so bad that I just started doing “don’t recommend this channel” to anyone who mentions jerma, fuck you youtube, I don’t know anything about jerma and I never will

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      You haven’t heard of the infamous Germa 66? Mercenaries of the underworld, commanded by the Vinsmoke family, rulers of the Germa kingdom. Not to mention, the defacto bad guys in most comics mentioned in the one piece universe.

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    I love watching a video related to politics and being greeted with the smug voice of some PragerU idiot, and then having to look at an ad underneath the video that says THE RADICAL LEFT MUST BE STOPPED. “Muh big tech is censoring conservatives” my ass.

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    I maintain two accounts. One in which I carefully pick what to watch to curate better recommendations, and another on which I watch whatever the fuck that I don’t want to affect my recommendations

    It shouldn’t be this hard tho

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    You can turn off watch history and it’ll recommend videos based on your likes and dislikes. It’s still pretty bad but it’s better.

    You can also configure ad blockers to block recommendations, and I wish there was a button for that in the ublock settings.

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    Pro-tip: Report the videos for violent content

    If you do this enough with a script on a new account and never watch anything, you eventually get some really weird stuff (and a lot of films from the “Movies” channel but you can also report them for some reason last I checked)

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    No clue how youtubes rec algorithm got so fucked up. It used to be decent, sometimes it’d recommend cool obscure bands or whatever that I’d actually like, now it can’t even recommend the next video in a numbered series. And its prioritization is bizarre. Like, 5 years ago I watched a bunch of music videos from an artist I like and they were good I enjoyed them, but now all of a sudden, it is literally the ONLY videos it seems to want to recommend. It’s busting ass to autoplay the same three or four videos after every single thing I watch and if I’m not quick enough to get away it plays it presumably reinforcing some nightmare feedback loop. I didn’t even like autoplay at first, but I’ve grown accustomed to it for just letting things go on in the background but I guess I’m just gonna disable that and start nuking channels even if I like them. Fucking enshittification.

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    I used to know the anarchy cookbook recipe for thermite. I just remember that you need a bunch of rust flakes and a blow torch.

    But yeah, I frequently get video recommendations for funny-clown-hammer and it’s maddening.

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      Same ussr-cry I just wish they didn’t break the dam holding back all the other gamer videos like those stupid ass ‘when the devs understand the players’ 30s clickbait videos showing some stupid mechanic in ToTK that was present in BOTW

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    There’s a bunch of categories of videos I’ll only open in a private tab (music, one-off things I’m looking up, anything from a link, youtube’s own recs)

    Because of this, youtube does almost mostly recommend videos with topics I’d be interested in, but the videos themselves are almost uniformly bad.

    Also my private session’s recs always end up being video game clickbait, simpsons clips, best of whatever music compilations, and celbrity buzzfeed cllickbait.