• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
    651·
    10 months ago

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

    • Joelk111@lemmy.world
      241·
      10 months 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
        13·
        10 months 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.

    • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      41·
      10 months ago

      I manually clear my history once in a while. I used to have it turned off to force the algorithim to only work with my Liked videos but can’t do that anymore. It will pretend that they can’t recommend anything unless the history is turned on.

    • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      10 months 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.

  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
    281·
    10 months 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

    • Smacks@lemmy.world
      8·
      10 months ago

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

      • xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 months ago

        I love libretube, but I really need it to support queing videos. As it stands you have to pick each video you want to watch/listen to. Unless there is a hack I am unaware of Playlists don’t really exist.

        Please prove me wrong, if you know better than I do.

        • kase@lemmy.world
          2·
          10 months ago

          I can’t que, but I can make playlists in libre (android). There’s a “save” option under the video that lets me create playlists and save videos to them. We might just be using different app versions if you can’t.

    • kase@lemmy.world
      8·
      10 months 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!)

  • xpinchx@lemmy.world
    19·
    10 months 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.

    • Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      10 months ago

      Noticed this last night when I got some totally unrelated stuff, comments are filled with “what is going on, why did YouTube reccomend this to me? I love it”

    • YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee
      2·
      10 months ago

      I’ve been getting these types of recommendations as well but unfortunately I’ve only seen one good one, for the most part they are low quality/beginner content. I like the effort though. I’d pay for premium if they tried to get back to early YouTube, restored the dislike button, fixed the search functionality, only recommend videos related to what im watching, and didn’t optimize their algorithm to murder my attention span.

      • xpinchx@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 months ago

        You probably already know but there’s a good extension for returning the dislike button that a lot of people seem to use. And another one for skipping sponsored content automatically and it also adds a highlight button that will skip to what is presumably the point of the video (why you clicked) as well as ublock origin.

        Between that and the improved algorithm my YT experience is so much better.

        • letsgo@lemm.ee
          2·
          10 months ago

          But doesn’t that extension just assume dislikes is some proportion of likes (1/3 comes to mind but I’m not sure why)? The whole point of dislikes is knowing ahead of time that the video is a pile of shite, for example if it’s got 20 likes and 200 dislikes it’s probably not worth bothering with. But if it’s got 20 likes and, say, 7 dislikes based on dislikes=likes/3, that gives you no useful information.

          Now if that extension queries some API that returns the hidden 200 dislikes, THEN it’d be useful.

          • xpinchx@lemmy.world
            1·
            10 months ago

            It does a pretty good job with the ratio id say just give it a try?if a video is like 75% or lower it’s usually a pretty shit video or the person has some wack views. I’ve seen a few videos too where it’s as low as ~25%

  • Thrashy@lemmy.world
    6·
    10 months 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
      4·
      10 months 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.”

  • TheControlled@lemmy.world
    4·
    10 months ago

    Straight up I use private mode to watch shitty YT vids from shitty or uninteresting Ytubers all the time. My algorithm is precious to me. I needs it.