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Another thing I've noticed in Youtube on the smart™ TV, is that the app does not adapt the suggestions based on previous searches anymore. Now it's almost entirely generic crap all the time (Seriously, I am so sick of those thumbnails with the surprise face. I hate them!)

Between the ads and the poor content, I feel like Youtube is pushing hard to become the new public TV.

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It's not just you. Mozilla ran a study recently and found user content controls on YouTube such as the 'Like' and 'Dislike' buttons are largely useless and have no effect on what we're recommended.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/research/library/user-cont...

The algorithm might not take it into account but it's useful for viewers to see how downvoted a video is. If I see that it's 50% downvoted then I know the contents to be controversial.

Downvotes haven't been public on YouTube for a few months (Google justified this saying dislikes were "harassment", whatever that means)

(likes / views) is still interesting, but you need to grade on a curve

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