• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    You can fix your YouTube algorithm by going into your watching history and deleting the videos you don’t want used for recommendations!

    • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Also, use a private window or app for viewing videos outside of the “norm”. I do this for pretty much everything I click through on Lemmy and some channels I just don’t want to ruin my feed.

    • Joelk111@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Also, tap the three dots on videos you don’t want to watch and select don’t recommend channel or not interested.

      • ScoopMcPoops@lemmy.world
        11·
        1 year ago

        There’s this one streamer/YouTuber I used to watch a lot, but after some controversy I didn’t feel comfortable watching him anymore. For months now I’ve been telling YouTube to stop recommending his channel and it still pops up.

  • GhostMatter@lemmy.ca
    2·
    1 year ago

    YouTube is still gonna recommend disgusting videos in “For You”, even if you report them constantly.

  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    I recently switched over to using LibreTube which cut me off from personalized algorithmic recommendations.

    It was a little bit like switching off Reddit to Lemmy - less digital sugar pills, but after a while, I don’t even really miss it.

    I do have to actively seek out new creators if I want to watch something new, but in all honesty my current subscriber list keeps me more than busy.

    On balance a net positive, would recommend

    • kase@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      On balance a net positive, would recommend.

      Seconded. All my homies love LibreTube.

      (At least I think they would, if I weren’t the only person I know who uses it. But hey, now there’s you! There are dozens two of us!)

    • Smacks@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been using ReVanced for awhile now, but LibreTube sounds pretty good to get off the algorithms wild ride

      • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s not a perfect experience to be sure, since it doesn’t have the backing of a trillion dollar company with tens of thousands of engineers. It mostly gets the job done with a bit of know-how for me, though.

  • xpinchx@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m not sure what happened, but my algorithm is on fire lately (in a good way). I frequently get recommended quality videos with very little engagement and not many views. Smaller gaming channels, car enthusiast videos, short <20 second videos that are hilarious and remind me of early YouTube.

    It looks like other people are getting these as well because they will be 5-6 year videos with 10k views and all the comments are from this last month.

    The whole experience is very much “early YouTube” and I’m here for it. My front page used to be all from the same dozen channels but I have so much more variety now.

  • Thrashy@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Joke’s on you, creep, I have a toddler. All my algorithm serves up now is Blippi videos, steam locomotives, and construction equipment!

    • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Impressively enough, my algorithm seems to automatically filter out all the videos that my toddler watches. I never get them recommended, like it knows “hey, this is just a dad playing this for his kid to watch - we don’t need to recommend him Elmo.”

  • enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2·
    1 year ago

    Most of the time I open youtube in Google container tab, see any interesting video to watch, but I often don’t want to have related videos recommended to me. So I watch them in temporary containers.

    Because the recommendation is like this, just because I like 3kliksphilip talk about niche ladder mechanic in counter-strike, doesn’t mean I’m interested to some random e-sport CS player talk about CS tournaments.

    Or one time I watch 2kliksphilip’s video on DiRT Rally, I get videos from racing youtubers talk about their driving wheels, and even real-life Rally videos. (Philip doesn’t even use driving wheels, he used keyboard, but this is unrelated :3)

    • palordrolap@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Unsure what platform you’re using, but on desktop there are options to tell it you’re not interested in a video or even a whole channel.

      And once I’ve done that a few times, I get recommendations that are clearly the algorithm struggling to figure me out. What also makes me suspect it has no idea is the appearance of the “watch it again” section. “Ah-ha! We know you watched these videos, so you’re bound to want to watch them again!” and then I say I’m not interested in those either.

      When the AI revolution comes, that one particularly confused robot is gonna come find me, I can tell.