Currently in the US elections are featured in my YouTube feed, and not factual content but rage inducing.
How can I filter that?
Personally I prefer not to be fed by the algorithm. I bookmarked ‘subscriptions’, check for new ones and if there aren’t any I go do something else.
I prefer a third party front end. Then you really only get what you want.
On a video in a video list page there should be a “…” menu next to the title. It has options for “hiding” the video and “don’t recommend channel”. I can’t comment on how effective those are, but they might give the algorithm some hints about what you want to watch.
In addition, if you have stuff on your watch history that you don’t want to see more of, you can go to https://www.youtube.com/feed/history and remove them. Allegedly that stops them being used to decide what videos are recommended.
Turn off all history tracking for youtube (disables all recommendations). Rely solely on your subscriptions
This is the only way. I’ve been doing it for years, in part because I absolutely hate catered content based on what I’ve viewed/read. Doing so only increases silos. At least with reddit (RIP)/Lemmy you pick from a potpourri of silos that are don’t change depending on what I’ve read.
This is the only way.
No, that’s just the only way to do it without putting in any effort.
I’ve have history enabled for years and I don’t get much of the complaints people have about YouTube; my recommendations are fine and I usually find other channels I like that way, anything I don’t like I dislike and mark as not interested and that type of content goes away after a handful of markings.
I understand the want of not being silo’d, but at the same time, I know what kind of brain rot YouTube can offer, so I’m happy to solo myself away from that dreck.
Happy with your catered silos isn’t the same thing as no silos.
My “catered silos”: motorsports, gaming, science, engineering, music, etc.
Oh no my biased opinions on whether or not the XR150L is worth buying or perhaps Minecraft Skyblock Challenge.
Please someone help me expand my views on Four Producers—One Sample, please!
I have the exact opposite advice lol
I think that would give you the worst content on YouTube in your feed…
It literally turns off that feed you’re talking about?
“How do I get rid of political recommendations filling my feed”
At the extreme end - turn the feed off entirely. Then you dont get a homepage filled with political recommendations.
What am I misunderstanding?
Sorry, I thought turning off the history tracking lead to YouTube giving you a homepage full of the top trading videos? Like if you don’t log in with an account?
Hence why I included a screenshot of what my homepage shows. Is that not loading for you? There are problems with different lemmy clients not showing images.
imgur link to the same image https://imgur.com/a/NG4ITcx
Yeah I didn’t realize that’s what your homepage would just be permanently. I thought it was showing a message you get after turning off the tracking, based on the context. I now remember hearing about that changing recently, but it’s definitely not the way it used to work.
Use a different YouTube client. Free tube for the desktop, new pipe for Android.
That way you control your feed completely and your recommendations. You don’t get to see the rage algorithmic baiting
To keep YT under control: Firefox is my web browser, with the uBlock Origin extension installed. So, all Shorts/Suggestions, ‘News’ and ‘Related content’ are now automatically removed from YT '(easy to achieve with uBlock Origin when using Firefox).
😍🥰 Firefox + uBlockOrigin
And whenever Google/YT suggests me some turd content, I dislike it and ask it to not suggest the channel/content anymore.
In the end, my feed is mostly made of stuff I enjoy watching, with so little noise that it can not be considered an issue.
I had to clear my history because all I was getting was jujutsu kaisen and none of my subscription stuff was coming through.
There is a subscription page! I had no idea for years that in addition to the home page (which is a mix of subscription and algorithm videos) there’s a subscription page which only lists videos from channels you’re subscribed to, in order of recency.
I use it now quite a bit. And I’ve been subscribing more. Before I fell down the jjk rabbit hole, I hadn’t realized how mamy creators were being suggested that I’d never hit follow on, but would watch often.
How can I get Lemmy to stop all the political stuff
Subscribe only to communities you want, and then use your subscribed feed instead of the local or all feeds.
I blocked a lot of communities.
Do you have a yt account?
If so, curate your watch history.
I have done it for at least a decade, as soon as I watch something outside my sphere of Tech, History, Electronics, Transportation, Gaming, Amateur Radio, Lego, cool old objects, Acheology, Car, Programming, Long form documentaries, and similar videos I delete it from my YT history.
This has a huge impact, it feels sort of as if you constantly need to fight for your balance on a knife’s edge, falling either way will massacre your yt feed.
I’d be happy to post what channels I subscribe to if you want to get started
This is exactly what needs to be done. I too have been curating my YT feed for years. I don’t let anyone watch videos on my account and anything that is in conflict with the environment I want to maintain in my feed I simply don’t watch or sign into a burner account to watch.
Everyone else’s feeds are pure cancer compared to mine.
Police your algorithms, folks.
Everyone else’s feeds are pure cancer compared to mine.
The worst part of it is that we have people like my dad who refuse to get a Youtube account, because then you hand over information to Google.
But he won’t stop using youtube…
They already have your info! You are just refusing to actually aknowledge it and give yourself control of how a part with huge impact on you get’s used!
This may be immoral, but I support kids taking control of their parents YT history, removing alt right content from their watch history and even secretly watching other interesting content to change the feed.
There have been so many horror stories of kids seeing their parents slip away to the alt right by youtube and social media algorithms and push more and more extreme content.
This needs a counter force, I would never stop someone from watching a specific video, but if I needed to I would do what I could to make it not show up in the feed.
I’ve heard stories about people putting on parental locks or making it harder for their parents to access Fox News and other far right media. Once that cancer has been cut off from the source, the parents started becoming like their old selves.
Use Newpipe.
Some shit gets injected by region or time of day. I live in a red state and get obnoxious red state hobbys that I am either not interested in or only minorly interested in and the ads are even worse.
Find a healthy hobby out-of-doors.
Go into your watch history and delete all of the rage inducing videos. YouTube generates recommendations directly from your watch history (as well as subscriptions etc).
Then subscribe to channels you really like that don’t enrage you! I highly recommend hobby-focused and science-based channels. There are tons of them out there and they have great content!
Apparently the gardening and eco/tiny-house world is very wholesome, because that’s 75% of what I watch (not including music) and I never see recommendations for ragebait.
Don’t log in, clear your cache, use a vpn
Don’t log in
Terrible advice, you deny yourself the best tool you have against this, curating your watch history.
clear your cache
Fair, if you absolutely refuse to create an account, then this is your only option.
use a vpn
I am an IT technician, and people need to cool it with yelling for other’s to use a VPN constantly, a VPN service doesn’t really add anything to your privacy, well, it adds another link in the chain that you need to trust, the only thing your should use a general VPN for is watching region locked content. If you want privacy, use TOR running in a VM.
Don’t log in
Terrible advice, you deny yourself the best tool you have against this, curating your watch history.
—- Person 1: phone is constantly being harassed by spammers and scammers with spoofed numbers, calling person 1 by name, mentioning their make and model of car, etc.
Person 2: doesn’t own a phone —-
Person 2 is better off. I think it’s pretty good advice.
What, I have never been harrased by callers because I have my phone registered on youtube/google.
EDIT: Also you can skip adding your phone number to google:
https://clean.email/create-a-new-gmail-account/create-gmail-account-without-phone-number
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Watch videos you want to see
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Click the dots > Not Interested in videos you don’t
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Enjoy your tailored feed with only stuff you want to see!
My YouTube algorithm is fantastic. I never see politics because if I want to watch a political video, I open it in a private window
I open it in a private window
I’ll try that on my AppleTV. Wait…
Can’t help ya there. Can you at least dislike a video on the AppleTV app?
Yeah I think I can, but I find that unfair to the content creator who may have otherwise created a good video. What I may end up doing is turning off video history, but sometimes it’s useful to easily pull up a video I’ve seen recently.
Wouldn’t that just give you the default slop on the homepage?
I wouldn’t feel bad about disliking a video unless it has like 50 views. It’s just a blip in the sea of reactions
I also find that marking stuff with “not interested” works pretty well. Some far right bullshit pops up occasionally but it’s quickly dealt with.
Yeah, with a small amount of effort you can really make your YouTube feed work for you. I have a main account full of engineering, computers, and misc entertainment (sketch comedy channels + Atrioc) and a separate one for my work laptop that’s just music. Both feeds are pretty fantastic but the recommendations on latter is especially good - I’ve found a ton of new artists including some with only a few hundred followers (shout out to folk singer Alexander Guy!)
i forgot about disliking videos and channels! That might fix my problem right away. THank you
Also, you can tell YT to never recommend a channel. It’s permanent (can’t undo) but well worth the use.
It might take some time but if you don’t want to start fresh with a new account, mark everything you don’t want as Not Interested as they pop up until your feed is clean! It’s worth the effort imo
Also i find that removing stuff you want to avoid from your watch history helps
Downvoting works pretty well for me
In addition, if you see a video like this, I prefer to select “don’t recommend channel”
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