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has your YouTube consumption decreased after implementing the "no history, no recommendations" feature? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by redhydride@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I noticed my consumption has decased quite a bit. I would visit regularly to watch content from few channels. I would probably still visit every so often to watch the new videos. But the experience has become more deliberate and conscious. I go to YouTube because I want to go and watch something specific. Mindlessly browsing and watching additional content is harder.

This is good progress from Google to get off their platform :)

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[–] jerebear39@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

My recommendations are broken. It just repeates what I'd been watching and never nothing new. I don't know why my algorithm is broken. I have gotten to the point of watching more movies and tv shows at this point.

[–] bermuda@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love long form comedy content but it does nothing but recommend 30 second clip content. It's absurd. I just can't like and interact with the videos I actually like enough.

[–] prole@beehaw.org -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then tell it you don't like those channels and thumbs down the short stuff you don't want, and thumbs up the long stuff you do.

Remove the "shorts" section entirely (I know you can with vanced, forget about vanilla) if those are the 30 sec videos you mean. I hate them and ignore them entirely. Simple.

It's really not hard to get YouTube to be a pretty damn good recommendation engine. You just have to give it some constraints.

[–] bermuda@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Me: I interact negatively and it doesn't work

You: then just interact negatively.

[–] trimmerfrost@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

There's a new tab. That might fix your issue

[–] prole@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Do you actually tell it what you do and don't like? If it keeps recommending a channel you don't like, click the "no more from this channel," or "don't recommend things like this" or whatever those options are.

If you do that, as well as thumbs up/down, you get good recommendations. Really not very hard.