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Comment by ss108 | Hacker News Reader

Agreed, YouTube homepage and recommendations have been garbage for YEARS.

Since around 2018, to my recollection. I just keep getting the same crap recommendations day after day. It's like, dude, you've suggested the same random clip from Mask of Zorro to me for GOD KNOWS WHAT REASON to me for the past several months, and I haven't clicked on it once. Don't think it's time to generate some fresh recs that might induce me, as a user, to click and watch stuff?

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I just clicked on a KPOP video link 4-5 years ago once. JUST once. Youtube is still insistively showing me ads for KPOP tutorials despite I havent interacted with ANY KPOP content since then.

Ban all of those channels with “dont recommend channel”. I had this when I clicked on some video ranting about horrible mobile game ads, and youtube decided that I am interested in playing shitty mobile games.

It’s not just YouTube, the Google mobile app feed has the same issues. It’s like they take one thing you read or watched and then try to throw anything even tangentially related at you ad nauseam and don’t really listen when you say “not interested”

Start using “dont recommend channel” option massively.

I have done that a few times, but it's tiring. I don't want to have to play whack-a-mole with it as much as their system seems to demand.

I spent about an hour doing it in total and youtube has been fine ever since. Any video that isn't along the lines I want to watch and I just drop the entire channel, no thinking. Clickbait? Then I'm not interested in your channel. Cute animal video? Nope, wont watch anything from you, etc.

Its well worth the effort if you watch youtube a lot. You can still find them in search, just wont get any recommends from them any more, so you wont be missing anything that you explicitly want to find.

> Cute animal video? Nope, wont watch anything from you, etc.

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