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Comment by dimmke | Hacker News Reader

This is so odd to me because this isn't my experience with Youtube at all. I just opened the homepage and it's mostly content I subscribe to and music that I've listened to before (I use Youtube for listening to DJ sets/Live music a lot.) I scrolled for a while and didn't see any Mr. Beast videos recommended.

Maybe it's because I pay for Premium? I also don't use Youtube that much.

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I also pay for Premium. Nevertheless Youtube ignores the likes/dislike/"not interested in this content"/"do not recommend this channel" signals.

Sure, it stops recommending that Minecraft channel. So that it can recommend 3 other Minecraft channels.

its weird. i dont pay a cent but never see anything from blocked channels. Likes/dislikes has no effect though

To clarify: I don't see anything from blocked channels, but there are a thousand clones of blocked channels and YouTube ignores my obvious signal that I don't want anything to do with them.

I block a Minecraft channel and YouTube shows me another and another and another.

I block a K-pop channel and YouTube shows me more and more K-Pop.

Yeah, my recommendations are only content I subscribe to and videos related to that.

The “related videos” sidebar next to the video doesn’t seem more willing to experiment with different content, but not so much my homepage recommendations unless I’m endless scrolling.

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