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> The video website has no option for me to say "don't show me any more of this kind of stuff". There are actually two different actions you can take on recomm
by pwython 6y ago
> The video website has no option for me to say "don't show me any more of this kind of stuff".
There are actually two different actions you can take on recommended videos that help. Just click the 3 vertical dots under a thumbnail:
"Not Interested" or "Don't recommend channel."
> There's no way to tell youtube what I like.
I can't imagine a scenario where there's a feasible way to "tell" YouTube exactly what recommended videos you want other than what it's doing now unless the content creators themselves were all on board to properly title & tag their videos. Bigger channels use clickbaity titles (eg. "I was shook when I heard this"). And smaller channels don't know how to utilize keywords.
I personally have never had an issue with YouTube recommendations, especially after using the above method to filter out things I don't want to see.
- lelandbatey 6y agoAdditionally, you can go to your history and choose "Remove from Watch History". I've found this can do a good job keeping certain "highly 'viral' videos" from infecting your recommendations.
- ManlyBread 6y agoBoth features are broken. "Not interested" does nothing aside from temporarily hiding the video. It's not a signal for "I'm not interested in this category of videos". These videos keep coming back anyway and the problem gets much worse if the same content is uploaded to multiple channels. There are videos I've blocked at least five times "Don't recommend channel" is a cruel joke. It works at first but it gets reversed when you view a single video from that channel. There's no way to enable it pernamently. Sometimes I like certain videos from a particular author but dislike the others and don't want them recommended to me and I can't click on a video added to my favourites without reversing the channel block.
- JCoder58 6y agoIf you want a channel gone from your recommendations, subscribe to it, then watch a video, then unsubscribe. At least for me, that makes the channel never show up even if you watch videos from that channel later.