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just because i listened to a single track from the Elden Ring soundtrack does not mean I'd like 200 'ELDEN RING LORE' videos shoved in my face. None of them even have <10k views - they're all like less than 1,000 views.

stop recommending 'AI voice dubs this song' videos that also have <10k views jesus christ, I don't want to hear a shitty version of Frank Sinatra singing the End of Evangelion song.

oh wow I looked up a very specific Frasier clip two months ago?? Thanks for recommending nothing but Frasier videos since that I haven't watched. God forbid I watch a single Jerma clip or I will be inundated with "Jerma talks chat through making thermite" videos for half a year.

To make matters worse, you hit "don't recommend this video I don't like this video" and two days later, the very same video pops up again. I've now resorted to just "don't ever recommend this channel to me again" even for small <10k views videos because that seems to be the only way to permanently prevent the same video from showing up at a later date. jerma-psycho

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I love watching a video related to politics and being greeted with the smug voice of some PragerU idiot, and then having to look at an ad underneath the video that says THE RADICAL LEFT MUST BE STOPPED. "Muh big tech is censoring conservatives" my ass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

There's a bunch of categories of videos I'll only open in a private tab (music, one-off things I'm looking up, anything from a link, youtube's own recs)

Because of this, youtube does almost mostly recommend videos with topics I'd be interested in, but the videos themselves are almost uniformly bad.

Also my private session's recs always end up being video game clickbait, simpsons clips, best of whatever music compilations, and celbrity buzzfeed cllickbait.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

the jerma shit is insane, it got so bad that I just started doing "don't recommend this channel" to anyone who mentions jerma, fuck you youtube, I don't know anything about jerma and I never will

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You haven't heard of the infamous Germa 66? Mercenaries of the underworld, commanded by the Vinsmoke family, rulers of the Germa kingdom. Not to mention, the defacto bad guys in most comics mentioned in the one piece universe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it's so fucked, just completely non-functional

the worst thing is when you've asked to "never recommend this channel" and then the algorithm goes "ah my mistake here's the 270 REUPLOAD channels for that channel" and then you nuke all of them but "you watched a video that mentioned the first channel here's all that channel's videos again"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

bear-despair you're telling me all my work is for nothing?? agony-shivering I might as well just make a new youtube account every three months.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I dont even know what videos it recommends me because I only go theremto search and watch a specific video and then leave when im done.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I maintain two accounts. One in which I carefully pick what to watch to curate better recommendations, and another on which I watch whatever the fuck that I don't want to affect my recommendations

It shouldn't be this hard tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the reason why you get pushed elden ring lore videos so hard is me, sorry, i just keep clicking that garbage

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Same ussr-cry I just wish they didn't break the dam holding back all the other gamer videos like those stupid ass 'when the devs understand the players' 30s clickbait videos showing some stupid mechanic in ToTK that was present in BOTW

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why would you need a YouTube account?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I am subscribed to like 60 different content creators whose videos I do enjoy and I like saving videos I've watched to playlists to show/share with other people. dean-frown

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The blocktube extension lets you permanently block channels/videos/keywords, annoying that it's necessary but it helps a lot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

keywords

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