You can fix your YouTube algorithm by going into your watching history and deleting the videos you don’t want used for recommendations!
Also, tap the three dots on videos you don’t want to watch and select don’t recommend channel or not interested.
Yeah, like a month ago my YT recommendations were dry, plus and I wanted to delete all my search history and turn it off, but I couldn’t do that without clearing my watch history too. So I did that and the algorithm was fixed!
The only problem was that it recommended videos I already watched.
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
I’ve been using ReVanced for awhile now, but LibreTube sounds pretty good to get off the algorithms wild ride
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.
It’s not a perfect experience to be sure, since it doesn’t have the backing of a trillion dollar company with tens of thousands of engineers. It mostly gets the job done with a bit of know-how for me, though.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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YouTube is still gonna recommend disgusting videos in “For You”, even if you report them constantly.
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