Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Do you get strange Youtube suggestions?

Tacitus tilts at the algorithmic windmill and seems to be making some headway getting the oddball suggestions turned off

Tacitus, a grateful Internet thanks you.

10 comments:

  1. Depends on what you call strange. I watch a lot of strange stuff. Buy yeah it goes fool sometimes & I have to clean out the suggestions just like that guy does.

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  2. Deleted all of my videos (cept'n one) Jan 10 2021
    They hate us.
    Why let them make money from you ?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hh7PKx5Vas

    Don't say anything about the irony of me posting a Y*utube link.......
    Rumble
    Rumble
    Rumble

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  3. They could put child pork in your computer

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  4. I avoid YT like the plague..
    Whenever possible I read instead of watch; I don't like having to sit through insane mutterings, and I read faster than someone can talk.

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  5. Weird recommendations. yessir. YT for a while seemed to think I ought to be watching evangelical deconversion vids. "Uhhh, no."

    Call me paranoid, but it strikes me that control of someone's Youtube feed would be a good way to mess with someone's head. Froth and propaganda for the mass of proles, programming and triggers for the Manchurian Candidate/MKUltra types.

    Just a thought.

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  6. My suggestions have been getting less and less helpful: recent content from my subscriptions gets increasingly crowded out by tangentially-related stuff from random channels, some of which are obvious clickfarms. Then there are recently-watched vids that get repeatedly re-suggested, which kinda points to the algorithm being b0rked.
    (Watch one chicken-related vid, and the next refresh is 20% chickens. Methinks a flywheel is needed.)

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  7. I wish I could blanket remove anything to do with music videos, games, and sports. That would go a long way.

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  8. Youtube either thinks I want to continue to watch the same videos over and over again, but this time out of order, or thinks I want to watch the type of videos that the women in this house watch...and I don't. I think their recommendation engine is borked.

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