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From under a max Miller video about waffles??

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Elon getting fooled by ai images here we go

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Here's a prophecy about to be fulfilled this year: Noodle07 finding a job

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Blocking problem YouTubers has been great for my mental health

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is why I don't use anything with recommendation algorithm anymore.

These recommendation algorithm are so aggressive in recommending anything related to your click (accidentally touched a ritz ad, now I will throw up if I see any more cracker ads), and also baits like these.

Now I use newpipe/mastodon/lemmy, I can click on whatever I want, and not worrying about stupid recommendations.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm having the same problem, YouTube just keeps recommending videos completely outside the scope of my interests and I can't figure out why.

I've been using it a whole lot less now, so I'm not sure what Google's end goal is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Serving videos that generate the most income.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I use an ad blocker and it pretty much just blocks the entire logarithm

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Now your youtube is complete linear.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Man that'd make my browsing experience exponentially better

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Fuck youtube. You watch one wrong video and half of your recomendations are fucked. And why in 2024 there's no proper tag system yet? I guest keeping things opaque makes them more money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Go into your YT history (https://www.youtube.com/feed/history) and delete the offending video. Your recommendations should be back to normal within 24 hours (ish). There's even a search bar for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/feed/history

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

They used to have a definitive tag system and got rid of it, just like annotations and video responses. sad. Of all things, tags were probably the best too. The new algorithmic garbage has sucked for years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was watching Gun Jesus and almost fucked my recommendations forever when it tried to toss up Garand Thumb as a recommendation.

"Fortunately" he blew his dogwhistles way too hard in the video and I caught on that this wasn't just dudes shooting at ballistic gel in interesting ways.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I love gun Jesus but man I have to be ever so vigilant to not autoplay the the recommendations. Almost every other youtube gun enthusiast is a raging asshole.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

these are AI generated videos meant to garner views and ad sense dollarinos. They do nothing except waste your time, and probably lie to you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes all those "list" videos are narrated by AI robots and I've learned to avoid the temptation and never click those.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

they're all pretty much ewaste on delivery. Thankfully there are a lot of good smaller channels, who actually produce content out there though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

bots. it's probably all bots.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

600k people who just had to know what kinda nonsense it was.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wish I could be this optimistic

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I'm really trying 😭

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ignoring the original post: I'm so happy to see another Tasting History fan in the wild!

Max Miller seems so wholesome and gives me hope for this crazy world.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Oh hell yeah he's great! I'm ashamed to admit he's how I learned that schnitzel is not actually a type of sausage as I previously had assumed for whatever reason lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Literally one of my favorite YouTubers!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You knew what you were getting into with waffles.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

First waffles, then "is Elon musk the second coming of Jesus christ". Beware the slippery slope!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I haven't been getting that level of craziness yet, but I just always ignore practically everything that isn't someone I've subbed to and isn't about a cartoon/anime I like, isn't from someone I have already seen before and like but ain't subbed to, and isn't a game/topic I'm interested in.

I've seen some of the people I see on the front page of the Odysee app that I've never interacted with in any other way than scrolling past them appear on the front page of my patched yt app. It's insane, but it won't be a big issue for me, in terms of strictly just using the app, until they replace every suggestion with those nutjobs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Purge (or turn off) your watch history.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago

God how I love using newpipe or invidious to watch yt instead. Whenever I feel like finding stuff, the recommendations are always related to the video currently being watched, which can lead to interesting rabbit holes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Tupac is dropping his return album in 2026

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago

Report them, and say don't recommend. It's our civic duty to spam reports so they get taken down automatically. That will increase the amount it suggests to you but to stop that make playlist that can run overnight, fill it with good shit you've already watched so you don't miss anything new and just let that run. It will hopefully clean that shit out a bit.

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