I’ve had my YT history off for years, today I was prompted to check the setting. I kept it off, now my Home feed is just a prompt to turn it on. I actually like it.
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I recently disabled history after getting annoyed about getting bombarded with recommended videos for something I only needed to watch once (e.g. a recipe, or instructions on how to repair something).
Now my YT homepage is literally stuck with the same videos, even the ones I’ve already watched. Doesn’t matter how many times I refresh.
YouTube recommendation algorithm is extremely rudimentary, it’s shocking. I really wished that they gave us the ability to tune the recommendation model, or some sort of include exclude filtering.
You want to tune the recommendation model yourself?! Youtube knows better than you what you should watch, just shut up and keep clicking the ads!
Me, who hates the recommendations and YouTube storing my watch history: I see this as an absolute win
Why do you hate the recommendations? For me it goes thru my subs and pics the videos I’m actually interested about and then fills the gaps with related videos at which it seems to do pretty good job at.
Yeah not impossible to get good recs, I just find them more often to be not that helpful/interesting. Also they really soak up everything, so if I watch one video about solar panels or something my feed is suddenly 8 deep-dives into what BIG SOLAR doesn’t want me to know
Don’t forget the consistent recommendations for subtle and not-so-subtle right wing content
What IS big solar hiding… just asking questions!
I don’t even go to YouTube anymore since I started using FreeTube a couple weeks ago. Highly recommend.
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