Why Youtube's recommendations are now days are weird and possible solutions to the issues

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• Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  WTF is with that word salad title? AI generation?

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• twistedtxb@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m back to subbing to my favorite creators because the algorithm is so fucking random for the pas weeks. Nothing even makes sense.

  I don’t know if that was their intention or not, but the YT homepage is now worthless to me

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  • sik0fewl@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, I've been doing this for a couple years, since recommendations became useless. At least 50% of recommendations are things I've already seen (and I do have history turned on). I also use SmartTubeNext, which let's me filter out shorts.

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    • twistedtxb@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      SmartTube is so much better than the official app. Same for Revanced

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• GuyDudeman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I turned off my Youtube history, and now my YouTube home page is just a message asking me to turn it back on. It’s weird.

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  • theactuallynx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I found a browser addon that just redirects the home page to my subscription page. There was nothing of note on the home page before and there sure as hell isn’t now

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    • GuyDudeman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you remember what the addon was called?

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  • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same, but am standing strong on my decision. If they want to chase me away, I’ll find a different place.

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    • GuyDudeman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are alternatives these days. Which is cool.

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  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They recently announced they’d be doing this for people with history turned off.

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    • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s so much better… subscribing I much better than their algorithm.

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• Teknikal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I noticed earlier the same video I just “not interested” actually appeared twice on the next refresh not only did they ignore my effort but they doubled down.

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• PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I feel like the algorithm for recommendations hasn’t changed much in years. It’s decent, better than a lot of other recommendation algorithms. The not interested options have always done jack shit. I can’t count how many times I’ve not interested a video and told it I had already watched it. Only for it to consistently recommend me other videos I’ve already watched. You’d think after the 100th time selecting I wasn’t interested in videos I’ve already watched, that it would get the clue.

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  • ElBarto@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I like to listen to creepypasta stories when I’m going to sleep, youtube has been insisting on showing me 2 hour long videos about the Decline of ancient cities… how we get from dumb horror stories to the fall of some empire from 500ad is beyond me.

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  • HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, not interested doesn’t do much but don’t recommend channel is flawless for me

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• _Sprite@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I stopped using Youtube since I started getting blasted with autoplaying shorts related to nothing I actually watch and Temu & TikTok ads. Invidious and Newpipe fixed all of that for me

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• YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I switched to watching YT in an incognito window.

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