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Comment by chongli | Hacker News Reader

I’m a very strict curator of my watch history. If I ever succumb to click bait and click on some video I immediately regret, I go into my watch history and delete the offending video. This puts an immediate stop to any recommendations of similar videos. I recommend it to everyone!

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I do it slightly differently. My watch and search history have been paused for 3+ years, leaving the algorithm to only use my highly curated list of followed channels and Liked videos to recommend me videos from.

Even if I watch a meme video or two, it should have no impact on my recommendations.

If there's a random video that I want to revisit though, I only have my PC's browser history to rely on. Outta luck on mobile.

I'm the same, and it has been working really good for me so far. The only downside is that it's very easy to stay in your bubble of subscriptions and not get broader view from other sources. That's why occasionally I will still just browse the Home Page and pick some random stuff from it.

I use a second account to watch videos that i think will muck with my recommendations in any way I don’t like. Comedy, political news, music videos, etc… it’s nice to have a separate feed that gets my taste in these things without distracting my main algorithm from focusing on my deeper interests

same, single greatest control of what it recommends. sometimes i will go off on a tangent, but i dont want it populating my feed, so i'll prune the history, and it's perfectly happy.

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