YouTube uses the same recommendation algorithm as Gmail.
“Oh you bought a mattress? You must want more mattress content and to know every time someone talks about mattresses.”
That’s Amazon too.
I see you bought a desk, so here are 5 great deals on desks!
I think all stores are like that.
I bought a replacement part for my stove like 4 years ago from a local shop, and i still get emails *HEY, HEY, YOU LIKE STOVE PARTS RIGHT? HERES SOME AWESOME DEALS ON STOVE PARTS"
Did you know you can actually turn off your watch history, and it will stop recommending videos entirely?
I did it a while back to help stop me from refresh-addiction, and it totally works! You still get a subscription feed but it’s chronological, and it will still suggest relevant videos in the sidebar when you’re watching something.I want it to recommend some things. So I just curate my history obsessively.
It still recommends videos on the sidebar while watching other stuff. If your watching Tom Scott for example you will get a lot of relevant videos and a mix of his other vids on the side.
watch 30 videos on a subject that you’re super interested in.
Youtube: crickets
Accidentally click the wrong video and watch 3 seconds of it before going back and watching something else
Youtube: OH, YOU LOVE THAT THINK YOU ACCIDENTALLY CLICKED? YOU LOVE IT AND WANT TO SLEEP WITH IT AND RUB IT ON YOUR NIPPLES? WONDERFUL WE’RE GONNA DO NOTHING BUT SPEND THE NEXT THREE WEEKS SHOVING IT DOWN YOUR THROAT BECAUSE WE’RE SO MAGNANIMOUS.
I click on ONE my little pony video that one time.
that’s different. you really were addicted.
I don’t even know why stuff appears. Recently I got a bunch of NASCAR come up. I think it’s because I follow the NLS in Germany and watched an Obama video and that mooshed motorsport and the USA into the algorithm.
YouTube started doing a thing for me a few days back where every video that I moused over for a few seconds counted as a view and went into my watch history. Only took me about 30 min to notice because my algorithm suddenly turned to shit and I was getting the most content-slop recommendations. I could actually tell something was off with my account they were so bad. Looked at my watch history and noticed like 15 videos I never watched. Removed all of them and it went back to normal, then I had to Google how to turn off mouseover autoplay to make it stop.
Me, never leaving the Subscription tab: ???
Creators often quote how few of their viewers come from subscribers. I am amazed that the vast majority of YouTube watchers just happily let YouTube decide what shit to show them.
You can delete a video from your history and it will stop the algo from doing that. But yeah, it’s a really annoying algo.
Warch one breaking bad/better call saul scene, and now the whole series is in my feed.
Just watch in a private tab. If you find a channel worth following that way, then it can be promoted to “subscribed” status
