Currently in the US elections are featured in my YouTube feed, and not factual content but rage inducing.
How can I filter that?
Subscribe to creators you like instead of just watching random shit?
Stay within your sub box. If you want to watch recommended, stay within the video you are watching right now.
This is my personal advice as well. I completely turned off my watch history thus making YouTube replace my home page with a search bar. Whenever I want to watch videos i just go to my subscriptions
Turn off all history tracking for youtube (disables all recommendations). Rely solely on your subscriptions
I think that would give you the worst content on YouTube in your feed…
It literally turns off that feed you’re talking about?
“How do I get rid of political recommendations filling my feed”
At the extreme end - turn the feed off entirely. Then you dont get a homepage filled with political recommendations.
What am I misunderstanding?
Sorry, I thought turning off the history tracking lead to YouTube giving you a homepage full of the top trading videos? Like if you don’t log in with an account?
Hence why I included a screenshot of what my homepage shows. Is that not loading for you? There are problems with different lemmy clients not showing images.
imgur link to the same image https://imgur.com/a/NG4ITcx
Yeah I didn’t realize that’s what your homepage would just be permanently. I thought it was showing a message you get after turning off the tracking, based on the context. I now remember hearing about that changing recently, but it’s definitely not the way it used to work.
If you turn off history you get nothing these days. Or at least that is what I get with firefox and the default ublock. Or maybe google slows loading down and I just don’t wait long enough for them to pobulate the homepage.
It doesn’t matter as I access youtube by subscriptions only. I don’t have time to watch all the videos of interest there, much less scroll for something random.
This is a more recent change.
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.
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!
I have the exact opposite advice lol
Edit: privacy aside, it does work. YT shows rage inducing content because it wants engagement more than anything. My algorithm is so trained now that it can show me stuff I’ll actually enjoy and want to engage with and therefore it doesn’t bother showing me that crap
To keep YT under control: Firefox is my web browser, with the uBlock Origin extension installed. So, all Shorts/Suggestions, ‘News’ and ‘Related content’ are now automatically removed from YT '(easy to achieve with uBlock Origin when using Firefox).
😍🥰 Firefox + uBlockOrigin
And whenever Google/YT suggests me some turd content, I dislike it and ask it to not suggest the channel/content anymore.
In the end, my feed is mostly made of stuff I enjoy watching, with so little noise that it can not be considered an issue.
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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
Also i find that removing stuff you want to avoid from your watch history helps
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
Downvoting works pretty well for me
In addition, if you see a video like this, I prefer to select “don’t recommend channel”
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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On a video in a video list page there should be a “…” menu next to the title. It has options for “hiding” the video and “don’t recommend channel”. I can’t comment on how effective those are, but they might give the algorithm some hints about what you want to watch.
In addition, if you have stuff on your watch history that you don’t want to see more of, you can go to https://www.youtube.com/feed/history and remove them. Allegedly that stops them being used to decide what videos are recommended.
Clear or curate (remove anything political) your watch history, start liberally (hue hue) blocking shit. Install BlockTube. (uBO and SponsorBlock are also a given, just slightly less on topic)
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.
Use a different YouTube client. Free tube for the desktop, new pipe for Android.
That way you control your feed completely and your recommendations. You don’t get to see the rage algorithmic baiting
Find a healthy hobby out-of-doors.
I don’t understand why people don’t turn off youtube watch history. I nuked my account about a year ago and have since made a new account with a burner email adress. Turned off all tracking and history for YouTube and all affiliate Google accounts and all the recommended videos are completely random shit. They’re basically sidebar ads to me now, I dont even notice they’re there. I want to watch a video - search it, watch it, thats it never see any other shit about.
Step 1 - Delete YouTube
Step 2 - Go outside
Lol I row like 15h/week. Stereotypes are awesome.
I use Newpipe to anonymously access subscriptions and nothing but. Bonus is you can download it locally as video or 160kbps .opus
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.
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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.
This so much. Years ago I’ve had it push Moon landing denial videos in my recommendations, even though I’ve never watched videos on conspiracies or anything of the sort at the time. The closest I got were pop-sci channels such as Vsauce, Numberphile… It’s just trying to hook you onto the garbage content and garbage ideas because they have good and loyal viewership.
Yeah… Somebody is clicking them
Get a chrome extension to block channels, ez pz
