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.
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.
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.
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You can fix your YouTube algorithm by going into your watching history and deleting the videos you don’t want used for recommendations!
Also, tap the three dots on videos you don’t want to watch and select don’t recommend channel or not interested.
You’d be surprised how good youtube is at finding similar crap.
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.
Ha! That doesn’t work for a decade now
don’t recommend channel works fine for me. Not interested does nothing.
… Fucking really? OMG, that’s good to know!
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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.
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.
You just changed my life!
I used to do that on Netflix as well