Pause your YouTube watch and search history. It makes a world of a difference.
I like videos I care about and want to see more of. Watching a single junk video (in theory) doesn't ruin my feed.
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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youtube algo is such a piece of shit.
Watch lets plays and tech channels, every day, for months.
Accidentally watch 30 seconds of a right wing psychopaths video because they buried the lede with the video title, and all youtube wants to show me for 2 weeks is right wing extremist bullshit, and takes months to get back into getting suggested the shit i normally watch on the daily.
I hate how pro right wing YouTube is. Half the time I make an anti-Trump comment, it gets censored. But plenty of pro-MAGA comments get through constantly.
I can tell that I'm getting censored because my comments simply won't be there when I go back to the same video from a different account. But it'll show up in my comment history with a "some comments might not be visible yet" disclaimer at the top. Sometimes if I keep reposting the comment it'll eventually go through, but by then the video has stopped being promoted by the algorithm and so no one sees it. This only happens to me when I get political.
most websites like youtube/twitter/facebook/etc/etc are all heavily pro-right wing.
They've claimed in the past they don't want to appear "biased" by cracking down on right wingers for rules violations. but honestly, it was obviously bullshit since they had no problem with "biased" appearances when cracking down on any other group, and often for far far far less than what right wingers routinely get away with.
Right wingers are where their bread is buttered. They buy more ads, they run less adblocking, and they click more ads.
As someone who has watched 6 of those videos in the screenshot from across 3 different channels, I apologize for my part in training the algorithm into thinking others who watch a single Balatro video might be interested in watching all the variety streamers play Balatro.
Use Freetube, it's a FOSS desktop application where you can import your subs and playlists
Best selling point is how the homepage is the most recent videos by your subscriptions in order, from most to least recent
I honestly prefer it to youtube in every way
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!
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.
Free autism diagnosis by the algorithm
Unironically the YT algorithm that pushed me into videos that eventually made me get diagnosed by a professional.
Yep. The suggestion algorithm is way too aggressive. Keep in mind you can remove individual videos from your watch history.
Log out, clear cookies, never log in again.
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.
A curated algorithm on Youtube is honestly amazing. I get comments about mine all the time when people come over and see it on my TV.
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!
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What is balatro?
A well-liked card game on the computer.
Drugs given video game form.
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.
Just turn watch history off and find your own way. My YT homepage is blank. Fuck suggestion algorithms.
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I got way better due to them tho 😅
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.
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