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Flauros
10/07/22 4:41:17 PM
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Out of nowhere i get flooded with shitty click bait medical videos, top 10 lists, celebrity garbage, text to speech reddit shit, and fucking awful infographics cartoon videos.

None of which i actually want to see. I never sought them out in the past (if anything, i always click "dont recommend" when that shit has popped up before).

Is this happening to anyone else?

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R1masher
10/07/22 4:42:26 PM
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No, you must have done something

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MJOLNRVII
10/07/22 4:43:05 PM
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My stuff is usually on topic with what I watch(animal videos, weeb shit, vidya, music), but every now and then I'll get a video from someone I give zero shits about over a topic I never look at on YT. I guess there's some like "interests-adjacent" recs that it can give you.

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Flauros
10/07/22 4:44:43 PM
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I almost exclusively watch gun videos, internet mysteries and DBD content. Way off from celebrity scandal and fake coin pusher garbage.

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trappedunderice
10/07/22 4:44:58 PM
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Or shitty critical moist videos where for 10 minutes talks about a 15 second video with the most boring monotonous voice you've ever heard.
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wackyteen
10/07/22 4:45:24 PM
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The Infographics Show must be some kind of content farm or something, they have way too many similar quality videos that they pump out everyday to be a small operation

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FigureOfSpeech
10/07/22 4:46:39 PM
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Flauros posted...
medical videos, top 10 lists, celebrity garbage, text to speech reddit shit, and fucking awful infographics cartoon videos.

I get all of that plus pet videos, game-related stuff and game music stuff

The thing that annoys me the most is when it keeps throwing in "mix" things. I always "not interested" those. Hopefully it'll figure it out eventually and stop doing that shit.

trappedunderice posted...
Or shitty critical moist videos where for 10 minutes talks about a 15 second video with the most boring monotonous voice you've ever heard.

oh yeah those too. I like the ones I actually watch but most I don't bother with. Really depends on what he's ranting about.

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TheMikh
10/07/22 4:47:42 PM
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i developed my own system a decade ago to mine youtube for data and algorithmically recommend things to me

youtube's algorithm has become absolute trash over the years

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garan
10/07/22 4:48:05 PM
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https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/20/23356434/youtube-dislike-not-interested-buttons-bad-recommendations-mozilla-report

Just read this article about a week or so ago-- Firefox has data that shows the 'algorithm' doesn't work worth a damn.
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pokedude900
10/07/22 4:48:32 PM
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The algorithm is based entirely on watch history. It looks at videos in your history, compares it to the history of other people that watched that video, and recommends videos that a lot of those people have watched. If you want to curate your recommendations, curate your history. Delete the related videos, the recs should vanish too.

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