Currently in the US elections are featured in my YouTube feed, and not factual content but rage inducing.
How can I filter that?
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Watch videos you want to see
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Click the dots > Not Interested in videos you don’t
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Enjoy your tailored feed with only stuff you want to see!
My YouTube algorithm is fantastic. I never see politics because if I want to watch a political video, I open it in a private window
I also find that marking stuff with “not interested” works pretty well. Some far right bullshit pops up occasionally but it’s quickly dealt with.
Yeah, with a small amount of effort you can really make your YouTube feed work for you. I have a main account full of engineering, computers, and misc entertainment (sketch comedy channels + Atrioc) and a separate one for my work laptop that’s just music. Both feeds are pretty fantastic but the recommendations on latter is especially good - I’ve found a ton of new artists including some with only a few hundred followers (shout out to folk singer Alexander Guy!)
i forgot about disliking videos and channels! That might fix my problem right away. THank you
It might take some time but if you don’t want to start fresh with a new account, mark everything you don’t want as Not Interested as they pop up until your feed is clean! It’s worth the effort imo
Also, you can tell YT to never recommend a channel. It’s permanent (can’t undo) but well worth the use.
I think if you sub then unsub it resets that block if you do it by mistake
In addition, if you see a video like this, I prefer to select “don’t recommend channel”
Downvoting works pretty well for me
I open it in a private window
I’ll try that on my AppleTV. Wait…
Can’t help ya there. Can you at least dislike a video on the AppleTV app?
Yeah I think I can, but I find that unfair to the content creator who may have otherwise created a good video. What I may end up doing is turning off video history, but sometimes it’s useful to easily pull up a video I’ve seen recently.
Wouldn’t that just give you the default slop on the homepage?
I wouldn’t feel bad about disliking a video unless it has like 50 views. It’s just a blip in the sea of reactions
It would show my subscriptions as well.
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Keep ignoring the videos and choosing “don’t recommend this channel”, eventually they will diminish.
My shorts feed cleaned up eventually like this.
Turn off all history tracking for youtube (disables all recommendations). Rely solely on your subscriptions
This is the only way. I’ve been doing it for years, in part because I absolutely hate catered content based on what I’ve viewed/read. Doing so only increases silos. At least with reddit (RIP)/Lemmy you pick from a potpourri of silos that are don’t change depending on what I’ve read.
This is the only way.
No, that’s just the only way to do it without putting in any effort.
I’ve have history enabled for years and I don’t get much of the complaints people have about YouTube; my recommendations are fine and I usually find other channels I like that way, anything I don’t like I dislike and mark as not interested and that type of content goes away after a handful of markings.
I understand the want of not being silo’d, but at the same time, I know what kind of brain rot YouTube can offer, so I’m happy to solo myself away from that dreck.
Happy with your catered silos isn’t the same thing as no silos.
My “catered silos”: motorsports, gaming, science, engineering, music, etc.
Oh no my biased opinions on whether or not the XR150L is worth buying or perhaps Minecraft Skyblock Challenge.
Please someone help me expand my views on Four Producers—One Sample, please!
When a video pops up that you find upsetting or irrelevant, click on the “Not interested” option. You’ll have the chance to provide feedback on why you don’t like the video. This helps YouTube understand your preferences better and refine future suggestions.
And you can also block entire channels. Some channels are better blocked.
Do you have a yt account?
If so, curate your watch history.
I have done it for at least a decade, as soon as I watch something outside my sphere of Tech, History, Electronics, Transportation, Gaming, Amateur Radio, Lego, cool old objects, Acheology, Car, Programming, Long form documentaries, and similar videos I delete it from my YT history.
This has a huge impact, it feels sort of as if you constantly need to fight for your balance on a knife’s edge, falling either way will massacre your yt feed.
I’d be happy to post what channels I subscribe to if you want to get started
Go into your watch history and delete all of the rage inducing videos. YouTube generates recommendations directly from your watch history (as well as subscriptions etc).
Then subscribe to channels you really like that don’t enrage you! I highly recommend hobby-focused and science-based channels. There are tons of them out there and they have great content!
Apparently the gardening and eco/tiny-house world is very wholesome, because that’s 75% of what I watch (not including music) and I never see recommendations for ragebait.
Safest way is to block chanels. It’s a bit of a constant work, but at least I avoid falling twice for the same idiot.
I’ve been really diligent about that but I’m realizing that 99% of channels are garbage. Instead I just search for specific things in youtube and don’t really click on anything recommended to me, unless I’m looking to fall asleep since youtube knows I like long videos.
Stop clicking on them. YT shows it to you because it has seen you open them and watch a chunk of the video. The algorithm is dumb and can’t tell whether you watch because you like it or hate watch them. It just knows you make engagement and revenue whenever it shows you that, so it does it more.
This isn’t true. I’m constantly getting recommended all kinds of crazy right wing video nonsense and I have never clicked on a single one nor has the only other person in my house. They are picking up on something else or just pushing those videos in general.
Some seemingly-innocuous channels just happen to appeal to fascists and become arbitrary entrances to the right wing YT pipeline.
I’ve noticed Big Think, Sabine Hossenfelder, lots of economics videos, and lots of less-reputable science channels tend to spur a rash of neocon content.
Yeah… Somebody is clicking them
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I use Newpipe to anonymously access subscriptions and nothing but. Bonus is you can download it locally as video or 160kbps .opus
I watch gaming and science stuff and my feed is filled with gaming and science stuff.
Agreed, though I wish youtubes algorithm was able to take into account video release date. Sometimes most of the science youtubers happen to be on a break and I end up watching a higher proportion of gaming content which then further kills the science content in my feed until I manually search it out again.
I get stuff over a year old but I don’t watch the latest necessarily so it may have learned I don’t care about the date.
Sponsorblock, ublock origin(don’t use chrome), and Unhook are nice browser extensions to help remove much of the bullshit.
Use Newpipe.
Step 1 - Delete YouTube
Step 2 - Go outside
Lol I row like 15h/week. Stereotypes are awesome.
I use YouTube almost exclusively for ASMR, metal forging, and engineering disaster documentaries. That’s all my recommended feed is now. YouTube wants you to watch things on there and keep watching them, the algorithm really doesn’t care what you watch to do that. The more you watch non-political stuff and avoid/immediately click away from political stuff, the more it will recommend non-political stuff.
Subscribe to creators you like instead of just watching random shit?
