[HaZeust]

Personally, I've never actually heard this problem. Do you watch industry-specific videos in a non-anonymized browser session enough? Once you watch, like, 5 videos on topics you care about, the algorithm has no shortage of astute suggestions.

[collingreen]

I'm not the person you're replying to but in my experience the YouTube algorithm is quite bad at filling my wish for a variety of topics and tone at all levels. I feel like watching one or two clips from the same channel suddenly floods me with that going forward which is rarely what I want. Personally I have a core set of things I want lots of plus I'd really appreciate brief forays into new topics with similar creators or new creators with similar topics but this feels completely impossible for me on yt.

I think they've jumped the shark and need to give me more control because currently I actively avoid watching videos I think MIGHT be interesting because the risk is too high. This is a terrible position to put your users in both from a specific experience perspective but also in a "how they feel about your product" perspective.

[sciurus]

> I actively avoid watching videos I think MIGHT be interesting because the risk is too high

You can remove videos from your viewing history. I do this when I start watching something but the content turnes out to not be what I expected. It seems to prevent polluting my recommendations.

[soco]

The problem with that is, I have more than one interest. So any algorithm will make a salad out of that and never hit me with what I want. Even if this particular session was about topic X they will still fill it with proposals from yesterday's topic Y, or extrapolate from them to topic Z I don't care, and so on. Mostly useless either way.

[sharpshadow]

There videos which YouTube will very very rarely recommended you, especially if they are not monetised and let’s say critical or opposing the mainstream.