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[–] 3 points 1 day ago* (3 children)

Pro tip for YouTube: don't use the main feed. Instead, look at the recommendations under an interesting video for other ones that catch the eye, and save them into ‘watch later’ playlists by topic.

Also, don't watch random videos under the main account, open an incognito tab for that. With these two approaches combined, YouTube gives me some great recs, especially for music.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    The kinds of videos I always make sure to watch in a private tab are things like:

    • viral videos
    • videos recommended by a friend
    • "how do I fix this broken toilet" videos, or something else that I need once and won't ever look at again

    With that approach, my recommended videos feed is still trash, but at least it's vaguely on-topic trash. I don't get recommended 500 plumbing videos because one time I needed to know how to fix my toilet. It doesn't take the fact that I watched a video that 500 million people also watched as meaning "I want to watch all the popular videos" or "I have the same tastes as everybody else who watched this video".

    I can always tell when I screwed up and watched an off-topic video in my normal account because the recommendations go to shit for a while.

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