[wppick]

I find that YouTubes recommendation algorithm is not great. It would be a cool feature to be able to something like assume a persona and have recommended videos that similar like minded people watched. There's effectively infinite videos on YouTube but it's common I can go there looking for a video and find nothing interesting to watch. In some cases it's pushing recommendations for videos all similar to a recent video I had watched, but I'm no longer interested in that topic

[chipsrafferty]

I have started to click "don't recommend this channel" quite a bit on YouTube shorts and I am finding it is recommending me more channels like the one that I just said I would never like to see again...

[ksherlock]

"Don't recommend this channel" flat out stopped working for me a couple weeks ago but I used to use it all the time.

The best part is, every so often they show up with "want to watch something different?" which seems to be a list of everything I explicitly said I don't want to watch.

[gs17]

To be fair, that has a twisted logic to it. Videos you have no interest in watching definitely qualify as "something different" compared to ones you do watch.

[xemdetia]

My favourite is when you did click don't recommend channel it sometimes still comes back after a year or two like a bad relationship on Facebook. I try and maintain a few browsers with different recommendations streams and it's always wild when I have a new PC and I get some really toxic recommendations.

[mcpackieh]

Skip that button and use BlockTube to blacklist channels instead.

[judge2020]

> In some cases it's pushing recommendations for videos all similar to a recent video I had watched, but I'm no longer interested in that topic

If it has already showed you your organic recommendations multiple times before, it knows it needs to grab onto something new to try to get you to watching. Since you watched that recent video, that's the best chance it has of getting you to click anything since you've shown direct interest in it. You can click 'not interested' on these and it's pretty good at following that instruction, at least unless your next video is another video similar to it.

[wppick]

To add to this... maybe YouTube could build a concept of bring your own algorithm or "curators" where I can follow a curator who either manually, or by using their own algorithm creates their own unique feed that I might enjoy more than YouTubes default. Maybe kind of like a spotify playlist or something. The curators could get a small piece of the ad revenue from videos they recommend as a sort of referral fee. This could also probably be done by an external service like a Piped, but they could instead just show their own ads instead of getting the referral fees.