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[–] [email protected] 84 points 8 months ago (7 children)

You can fix your YouTube algorithm by going into your watching history and deleting the videos you don’t want used for recommendations!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Also, tap the three dots on videos you don't want to watch and select don't recommend channel or not interested.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

You'd be surprised how good youtube is at finding similar crap.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

There's this one streamer/YouTuber I used to watch a lot, but after some controversy I didn't feel comfortable watching him anymore. For months now I've been telling YouTube to stop recommending his channel and it still pops up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ha! That doesn't work for a decade now

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

don't recommend channel works fine for me. Not interested does nothing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

... Fucking really? OMG, that's good to know!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I manually clear my history once in a while. I used to have it turned off to force the algorithim to only work with my Liked videos but can't do that anymore. It will pretend that they can't recommend anything unless the history is turned on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah, like a month ago my YT recommendations were dry, plus and I wanted to delete all my search history and turn it off, but I couldn't do that without clearing my watch history too. So I did that and the algorithm was fixed!

The only problem was that it recommended videos I already watched.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Also, use a private window or app for viewing videos outside of the "norm". I do this for pretty much everything I click through on Lemmy and some channels I just don't want to ruin my feed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

You just changed my life!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I used to do that on Netflix as well