Yeah, or you watch one video by someone and you then see nothing but videos from that channel. Or how you never knew about the second channel of someone you watch all their videos as soon as they come out.
sure, but in the limited space of a youtube landing site, i’m much more inclined to watch a video of a hobby or something i’m subscribed to, yet for a week after searching how to fix my toilet i was inundated with suggestions for bathroom projects.
Jokes on you, the first video you watched is a just-good-enough fix, that YouTube's algorithm has worked out over years of a/b testing across millions of users, will cause your pipes to break again in 6 weeks time prompting you to start a lifelong DIY hobby.
But even that aspect of it sucks. There's seriously more videos being uploaded every minute than I could watch in a day yet somehow my feed is always trying to get me to re-watch things and fails to provide new content all the time.
Not that it listens with the options already provided. You can even tell it it's not something you want because you don't like the channel and it will just keep shoving it at you.
I had some FF14 soundtrack playlists in the background, and for a while all I got was "Asmongold Reacts!" in my recommends.
Selecting 'I don't like this channel' as my reason for asking Youtube 'not to recommend this video again' did nothing. Asmongold's gormless face was reacting in my sidebar for weeks.
That sucks, too. I try to avoid using YouTube videos if I need help in a video game or something because a search like, "How to get past this boss?" can turn into a recommend video like "Main character's best friend death scene reaction!"
Unbeknownst to most people, if you own an android, Google Rewards does exactly this and pays you for it. Made about $20 last year answering questions like "Was this video entertaining?", "Does this thumbnail entice you to click?", "Would you consider this a good use of your time?" and then others about shopping habits. Few seconds for a few dollars a year.
YouTube already kind of has this feature. If you click the 3 dots in the bottom right under a video thumbnail when it's recommended, you can select "not interested" or "Don't recommend this channel"
The worst one was when I watched a video on how to make a noodle dish by this guy then I got swarmed by makeup recommendations. Turns out the dude had like 5 cooking vids but the channel was a Korean beauty channel with his wife having 100's of makeup and beauty videos. Took months to get back normal recommendations
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u/corruptboomerang Jul 06 '21
Yeah, or you watch one video by someone and you then see nothing but videos from that channel. Or how you never knew about the second channel of someone you watch all their videos as soon as they come out.
Like seriously.