the trick is to ignore your homepage and only browse your subscriptions page
you can use an extension to automatically redirect to your subscriptions page
Pretty much what I do with Lemmy, too.
You watch one video about old people reacting to rage against the machine and suddenly all the recommended videos are by “reactors” that make $50k a month doing nothing but watching movies with their mouth open
an acquaintance of mine did a reaction vid where they reacted as one normally would - ie very minimal almost nothing - to a star wars announcement and got death threats lol
Hey, that is a useful job! Do you always have opinions on things? Are you sure, you always have the right opinions? Come on, let’s make sure and watch a person with a funny face watch other things and move said face in a way, we can immitate!
Lol y is your watch history still on
Don’t act like disabling Watch History stop Google from recording your watch history for internal purposes.
Watch history is useful if you actively curate your algorithm feed. If you don’t engage with the tools the algorithm interacts with you can quickly end up with a free-for-all on your main page.
Oh it staight up disables the home page. Search > algo.
I use a 3rd party app Freetube. Don’t need a google account and you can set multiple subscription profiles for different types of content. I only find new channels from suggestions for each video but stick to subscription as home page. But as with any 3rd party front end, YouTube is in constant battle with them, especially with vpn which can break things once in a while but it is a price you have to pay for a bit of privacy.
Not just privacy, also usability. I can’t watch 5 minutes on YouTube without ads and the algorithm is aparantly more important than your own preferences, according to Google.
Oh definitely but my comparison was with Firefox using ublock origin so didn’t mention the ads. YouTube with ads is literally unusable for me and I don’t wanna pay money to google either. I haven’t seen YouTube recommendation page in so long so can’t remember how bad it is lol.
I got way better due to them tho 😅
Log out, clear cookies, never log in again.
Free autism diagnosis by the algorithm
Unironically the YT algorithm that pushed me into videos that eventually made me get diagnosed by a professional.
What is balatro?
A well-liked card game on the computer.
Drugs given video game form.
Look it up on YouTube!
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Lmao
ROFL
The downfall of my productivity at work
the best way to describe it is a poker roguelike. its weird but addicting, i like it a lot.
Yep. The suggestion algorithm is way too aggressive. Keep in mind you can remove individual videos from your watch history.
Agreed. You watch one video and the entire homepage changes.
I think maybe it’s geared towards people who watch more YouTube. I never have any single topic take over my entire homepage, literally ever. I even watched a balatro video like two weeks ago and I got two tiles on my homepage that showed balatro. But I also watch a lot of YouTube, so any one video doesn’t change much about my watch patterns. Last year my wife decided we were suddenly going to be watching videos about using turkey calls, and we watched about ten of them in a row and then I was getting a good number of recommendations for turkey shit, but still nothing like OP’s homepage.
I think there’s a sort of perfect storm that can happen. Suppose there are two types of YouTube users (I think there are other types too, but for the sake of this discussion we’ll just consider these two groups):
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Type A watches a lot of niche content of which there’s not a lot on YouTube. The channels they’re subscribed to might only upload once a month to once a year or less.
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Type B tends to watch one kind of content, of which there’s hundreds of hours of it from hundreds of different channels. And they tend to watch a lot of it.
If a person from group A happens to click on a video that people from group B tend to watch that person’s homepage will then be flooded with more of that type of video, blocking out all of the stuff they’d normally be interested in.
IMO YouTube’s algorithm has vacillated wildly over the years in terms of quality. At one point in time if you were a type A user it didn’t know what to do with you at all, and your homepage would consist exclusively of live streams with 3 viewers and family guy funny moments compilation #39.
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I watch a lot of YouTube and my experience contradicts yours. Watch one dog video and suddenly it’s nothing but dog videos.
Do you pay for YouTube in any manner?
Same here. My wife and I primarily watch YouTube (mainly let’s play style stuff, but a lot of non-game stuff as well). Looking at my homepage right now, I’ve got a few gaming videos, some Dropout (amazing comedy), some 3D printing and DIY videos.
Over the years, the algorithm has gotten pretty good with its recommendations for us. Watching some niche videos barely affects our feeds.
If I ever watch one Mr. Bean YouTube video, all my suggestions become Mr. Bean. I mean he’s ok but they literally have the same video uploaded to multiple channels with slightly different names.
Give me more different Mr. Bean. Stop repeating the Bean.
Unfortunately there’s only like, 10 Mr. Bean episodes. Not much “more different” to go off of there.
That realisation was what made me doubt all of my childhood memories.
Kid me was sure there was at least 50 episodes of an hour each. Nope. Only 14. All less than half an hour long.
Rowan Atkinson’s been in a lot of other stuff, for example Blackadder (multiple series). He’s also played Mr Bean in lots of movies.
A childhood favourite of mine, The Witches, featured Rowan Atkinson as the hotel manager. Apparently during filming (which took place in a real hotel, not a sound stage) Rowan was in his room when the crew noticed water pouring out from under his door. They opened the door and found him sleeping in bed with the water running! The sets outside were flooded and a bunch of equipment was damaged by water!
This is there first time I am learning about this and I am also finding it difficult to accept
Just turn watch history off and find your own way. My YT homepage is blank. Fuck suggestion algorithms.
Yep subscribing is the way to go.
The algorithm is dumb. It will even recommend the same video you watched before if you let it…
It will even recommend the same video you watched before
That is why I started liking (or dis-liking) every single video I watch, if it has the thumbs up/down I certainly know I already watched it and move on…
With that said I don’t know if I am tweaking or making my algorithm dumber lmao.
Ive found using clients to watch helps. They are generally much more intelligent on the history side.
What do you mean by clients?
Does no one use the Subscription page anymore? Are people even aware of its existence at this point?
I don’t subscribe to anything, but I’d prob use it if I did. I only go to YT for one-off videos and just search for what I need.
I used to utilize the subscription page. Then Google replaced YouTube accounts with Google accounts. I haven’t logged in since.
Yes, I’m old.
Do you want to link your account with Google+?
Ok, we’ll ask you again later.
Bump. This is what I do too. So much easier to just avoid it entirely.
Ha! I made this mistake when looking for a morning joe video to use to make fun of my hardcore right wing friend. Now all I see is those shit heads on my algo.
You’re using YouTube wrong. You’re supposed to set your default page to the subscriptions page.
I’m am so strict about what I watch on my yt account. Anything that is just a one off for curiosity or that I think will destroy my front page gets opened in a private browser or 3rd party app.
Fwiw, you can delete videos from your viewing history to theoretically fix it.
This is the way to be. Any time I see someone else’s feed in YT I almost always cringe in horror at what they’re being force fed. Curate your algorithms folks!
Yeah i do this. I browse front page for any recommendation and if it’s a shitty clickbait or something from a search or lemmy that i don’t wanna get flooded with, i delete that video. Then it won’t recommend you that sort of video.
You gotta control the algorithm and make it works for you.
This! You can curate the algorithm to work for you!
YT assumes you’re always binge-watching. Which people often are apparently.
Just use your subscription tab, like we did in the olden days.
