the trick is to ignore your homepage and only browse your subscriptions page
you can use an extension to automatically redirect to your subscriptions page
Lol y is your watch history still on
Don’t act like disabling Watch History stop Google from recording your watch history for internal purposes.
Watch history is useful if you actively curate your algorithm feed. If you don’t engage with the tools the algorithm interacts with you can quickly end up with a free-for-all on your main page.
Oh it staight up disables the home page. Search > algo.
You watch one video about old people reacting to rage against the machine and suddenly all the recommended videos are by “reactors” that make $50k a month doing nothing but watching movies with their mouth open
an acquaintance of mine did a reaction vid where they reacted as one normally would - ie very minimal almost nothing - to a star wars announcement and got death threats lol
Hey, that is a useful job! Do you always have opinions on things? Are you sure, you always have the right opinions? Come on, let’s make sure and watch a person with a funny face watch other things and move said face in a way, we can immitate!
I totally feel you but for a different reason. I played Balatro for a few days and literally the only thing Steam recommended to me for over a month was just card based rogue-like games.
Also I recommend the one by RTGame. Probably my favorite streamer. He’s Irish so I never catch the streams but the YouTube videos are great.
Did you know they called him the Balatro King in the college?
Yep. The suggestion algorithm is way too aggressive. Keep in mind you can remove individual videos from your watch history.
I think it’s just quick to hop onto new things that appear, but it evens out fairly quickly. I assume it’s similar to a PID controller tuned to adjust quickly but overshoot, and then come back to level over time. It seems to essentially be a test to see how much of a new thing you’ve watched you’re willing to watch. Once it sees you’re not opening a lot of them it levels out almost as quickly as it started. This let’s it quickly adopt new things you like, but (at least for me) it doesn’t stick around if I don’t engage.
Agreed. You watch one video and the entire homepage changes.
I think maybe it’s geared towards people who watch more YouTube. I never have any single topic take over my entire homepage, literally ever. I even watched a balatro video like two weeks ago and I got two tiles on my homepage that showed balatro. But I also watch a lot of YouTube, so any one video doesn’t change much about my watch patterns. Last year my wife decided we were suddenly going to be watching videos about using turkey calls, and we watched about ten of them in a row and then I was getting a good number of recommendations for turkey shit, but still nothing like OP’s homepage.
I think there’s a sort of perfect storm that can happen. Suppose there are two types of YouTube users (I think there are other types too, but for the sake of this discussion we’ll just consider these two groups):
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Type A watches a lot of niche content of which there’s not a lot on YouTube. The channels they’re subscribed to might only upload once a month to once a year or less.
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Type B tends to watch one kind of content, of which there’s hundreds of hours of it from hundreds of different channels. And they tend to watch a lot of it.
If a person from group A happens to click on a video that people from group B tend to watch that person’s homepage will then be flooded with more of that type of video, blocking out all of the stuff they’d normally be interested in.
IMO YouTube’s algorithm has vacillated wildly over the years in terms of quality. At one point in time if you were a type A user it didn’t know what to do with you at all, and your homepage would consist exclusively of live streams with 3 viewers and family guy funny moments compilation #39.
You may be on to something. I am much more like person A.
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I watch a lot of YouTube and my experience contradicts yours. Watch one dog video and suddenly it’s nothing but dog videos.
Do you pay for YouTube in any manner?
Same here. My wife and I primarily watch YouTube (mainly let’s play style stuff, but a lot of non-game stuff as well). Looking at my homepage right now, I’ve got a few gaming videos, some Dropout (amazing comedy), some 3D printing and DIY videos.
Over the years, the algorithm has gotten pretty good with its recommendations for us. Watching some niche videos barely affects our feeds.
pony on the front, lol
it’s coming it’s real
Why isn’t it recommending Northernlion :(
What is balatro?
Drugs given video game form.
A well-liked card game on the computer.
Look it up on YouTube!
ROFL
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Lmao
The downfall of my productivity at work
the best way to describe it is a poker roguelike. its weird but addicting, i like it a lot.
Whenever this happens, I simply go into my watch history and delete whatever the fuck it was that turned my entire FP into just that one topic.
Good to know you can do that.
Really shouldn’t have to tho. It’s always for a video I clicked accidentally or only watched 15 seconds before I was like “nah.” It should weigh things you’ve fully watched way heavier.
Ha! I made this mistake when looking for a morning joe video to use to make fun of my hardcore right wing friend. Now all I see is those shit heads on my algo.
Log out, clear cookies, never log in again.
I also hate that yt has enshittified to where it no longer has new or interesting stuff to reccomend. All my subs are from years ago as of late it doesn’t reccomend me anything but the biggest channels.
I use a 3rd party app Freetube. Don’t need a google account and you can set multiple subscription profiles for different types of content. I only find new channels from suggestions for each video but stick to subscription as home page. But as with any 3rd party front end, YouTube is in constant battle with them, especially with vpn which can break things once in a while but it is a price you have to pay for a bit of privacy.
Not just privacy, also usability. I can’t watch 5 minutes on YouTube without ads and the algorithm is aparantly more important than your own preferences, according to Google.
Been dealing with this BS for over 1.5 yrs now. Nothing fixes it. Skill issue on the YT dev team.
Pause your YouTube watch and search history. It makes a world of a difference.
I like videos I care about and want to see more of. Watching a single junk video (in theory) doesn’t ruin my feed.
