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Comment by bogota | Hacker News Reader

YouTube is the worst offender. I block and thumbs down the author… which of course means please recommend me every video they ever made. Youtube seems ripe for someone else to come and take a large part of the market if video storage wasn’t so expensive to enter into.

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On the recommendation (without clicking the video), click the 3 dots, click not interested, click the button to say why, click not interested in this channel.

This usually stops the channel from being recommended? You can also go into your viewing history and remove videos that you don’t want recommendations based on.

The YouTube app on my Android has a straight up "Don't recommend this channel" button that does what it says on the tin. Honestly I use it pretty sparingly.

Im on iphone and use that all the time not that OS should matter. It doesn’t do anything. It will recommend the channel to me the next day half the time.

Weird. There are a couple channels I'm sure it would recommend to me incessantly if I hadn't blocked them.

Ive used dozens of times on video recommendations for Louis rossman, and Fox News, the “not interested in this channel” button, and I still get recommendations. I’m not convinced that button does anything.

> Louis rossman

Disappeared off my feed. No idea what he’s doing anymore, probably still using too much flux.

This doesn't work for news channels. It is impossible to watch any non-MSM channel mentioning the news without the next recommended video being one of the major American news channels.

The only solution is to use browser extensions which can actually block channels properly.

Not all of the (official) youtube clients have this feature. The AppleTV client does not. And if I load the page on my desktop client (hopping to choose "don't recommend channel" there) the thing I want to block is not recommended on that platform...

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