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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (5 children)

You should go through your YouTube history and delete all the stuff you wish you hadn't watched so it stops recommending you junk.

[–] amio@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I tried this... bunch of stuff kept getting repeated like I was the most hyperfocused person on earth, so I go into the history and remove a bunch of content related to it. Surely that's driving the recommendations, right?

Well, the instant result is that it just recommended me back everything I'd deleted. Slow clap IRL

And, in a truly shocking development, it turns out the UX for trying to manipulate your history and recs is dogshit

[–] SirHaxalot@nord.pub 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Isn’t there a Not interested option in the context menus for all videos? Have you tried that since it seems to be the intended way to tune recommendations? As opposed tontrying to manipulate the view history.

[–] amio@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Sure. Sometimes it even works, but it's awkward and slow and tends to just recommend them again later anyway. That view history thing is supposedly the thing to try next.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe you don't know what you want and maybe google does and is trying to improve your life and you're being all selfish and hurtful and inconsiderate, DID YOU THINK OF THAT??

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

yeah! we always say "hey Google" but not "how's Google"

[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

You should turn off your history and tracking and algorithm all together, and just search for things you want to watch. Also, only use the Subscriptions tab instead of Home tab.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago

I don't have an account so I just reset my browser and start fresh.

[–] dance_ninja@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They should turn their watch history off

[–] searabbit@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

I just did this. Turned the entire thing off so I have no youtube recommendations anymore, and then made sure I was subscribed to everyone I do enjoy watching (like 100+ channels). So now I just watch the same like 5 videos I actually wanted to watch that day, but without the garbage I wasn't going to like anyway. I don't think we realize how much the endless scrolling robs us of time and energy to enjoy the things we actually like.

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 points 2 days ago

You guys have history? I save anything worth looking at later in Watch Later or liked videos.

I have such a long backlog of interesting stuff saved in WL that youtube could churn out nothing but slop for the next 2 years straight and I wouldn't get close to running out of videos to watch lol