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There was a time when the algorithm was truly amazing and the recommendations were smart, spot-on, and mostly high quality. I don't know what happened but you have to search now for decent content.

The recommendations part of YouTube just seems to give me old content or will show me things I've already watched. Despite it feeling almost user-hostile, I still use Youtube,

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YT has a bad tendency for over-recommending. I watch one video about stock market and my next ten videos are about stock picking from random guys. I also immediately get advertisements for crypto platforms!

The only time I appreciate over-recommendations is when I search for old standup videos of Dave Attell, George Carlin, and others and it suggests more of these gems.

> I also immediately get advertisements for crypto platforms!

Ad-blocker.

I recommend turning off the watch history. It means the only recommendations you get are related to the video you're currently watching. It's not perfect but it's a lot better.

Thanks. I will try this.

I really wish their was a setting to tune feed "volatility". This also drive me crazy.

Sometimes I'll be marking something as "not interested", but that time with it spent auto-playing is enough for my feed to turn in to the stuff I just said I wasn't interested in.

They seem to give totally different suggestions based on platform. On the TV app I get great high quality content every time and I love it. While on mobile it just pushes junk and shorts.

The algorithm was slightly different and it was working on a different kind of data (mostly videos). Now it is working also on shorts and it has to deal with the rise of automated videos, videos with misleading titles and other hacks by malicious actors.

It's also filled with ads, sometimes as long as the video, it's insane

I'm either gonna drop youtube, or hope something like peertube starts to grow

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