Poll of the Day > YouTube, I watched TWO videos of "X reacts to Y"

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Oh my god, give me something that isn't complete garbage in the recommended tab.

Hell, I'll take just a bunch of Gift of Gab videos at this point, I don't want to watch this s***. Give me something that's actually worth my time :/
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youtube recommendations are all corporate crap

Get this: If you enable full adblock - it stops recommending popular crap
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Oooh, where exactly did you get that?

I subscribe to exactly 3 channels with more than 1M subs, all of which are educational.
Stop feeding me garbage YouTube.
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Even if you look at it incognito with nothing watched the recommendations are crap. It's always:

- Someone in India or wherever making a "pool" that's basically just a dirt hole with water
- Clickbait "science" videos that are several months old at this point
- Late-night TV shows
- Top Vines to ____ (show grandma, cure cancer, etc.)
- Family Guy

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Some of them are pretty good.
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Chewster posted...

- Late-night TV shows
- Family Guy

Those are probably the most egregious to me. I watch youtube specifically because it isn't network television.
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Above all else it really annoys me that some videos will be there for months on end. Like even if the content itself wasn't shitty, that's objectively poor algorithm design for something that's supposed to be "trending". Maybe that's also a problem with "trending" videos creating a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy that feeds back into more views and thus making it trend.

Chewster posted...

- Top Vines to ____ (show grandma, cure cancer, etc.)

Vine compilations are saving the world, how dare you.
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Your mistake was watching one. I'll chalk it up to momentary insanity =p
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I watched 3 minutes of a comedic ASMR video and I accidentally clicked on another one and then it took a month for YouTube to filter the flood of ASMR recommendations that I wasn't clicking on.

I did notice that if you click "Not interested" it helps speed up the process, but it eventually comes back, like as an "Are you sure?" kind of thing.

the recommendations are from the kind of videos you tend to watch

if there's something you definitely don't like genre-wise in the list, then mark it "not interested"
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The other day, I used an old phone to watch some Youtube on(no logged-in account).
On the Recommended/Popular right now tab there was some kind of Asian video where there was a girl trying out clothes for an hour.
And yes I did click on it out of curiosity but I just skimmed through it.

Who in their right mind would watch shit like this?
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Sahuagin posted...

the recommendations are from the kind of videos you tend to watch

if there's something you definitely don't like genre-wise in the list, then mark it "not interested"

I typically mark one video as "not interested in this channel" then find the rest of their videos recommended to me and mark them as "not interested in videos based on this".
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Sahuagin posted...

the recommendations are from the kind of videos you tend to watch

if there's something you definitely don't like genre-wise in the list, then mark it "not interested"

I typically mark one video as "not interested in this channel" then find the rest of their videos recommended to me and mark them as "not interested in videos based on this".

That sounds perfect.
Now I can go back to weird music, Dark Souls garbage, and magic garbage.
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I haven't watched any of them and I still get them all the time.
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So everyone and their mother got that forging with obsidian video in their recommendations right?
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