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Sometimes I scroll YouTube shorts when I'm bored, and there will always be at LEAST one Alex Jones short that pops up, despite my only engagement being to quickly downvote it and skip it. It drives me crazy
Clicking on the short is engagement.
Downvoting is engagement.
Commenting how much you hate, disagree, or feel stupider for watching, is engagement.
Scrolling past the clip and entirely ignoring it, is not engagement.
So... Don't engage, and remember:
The algorithm doesn't care how you feel, just how long it can keep your attention.
The lack of engagement? Believe it or not, still engagement!
Only for the engagement metrics used to set advertising prices and bill the ad buyers.
From socialvideoplaza.com
As trustworthy a source as socialvideoplaza.com clearly is...
Google has a different take:
Mozilla also disagrees, here's a link to their study and some below articles diving into it
https://www.androidauthority.com/study-youtube-dislike-button-bad-recommendations-3210676/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2022/09/20/youtube-dislike-recommendations-mozilla/
So..it looks like affirmatively engaging with a video, even with a dislike, is engagement and is unlikely to change what types of content YT feeds you.
Now, from my anecdotal experience, the only way to remove, or reduce, unwanted content categories from your YT feed is a combination of flagging them as not interested AND searching/watching a new category of content to replace it with. Not perfect, but manageable. Oh, and using Piped/proxied services e.g. Newpipe.
Thank you for being you.
I don't click on it, I have never watched more than 10% of one before scrolling past, I have never commented.
He's saying that's the engagement.
You gave 10% engagement and voted with your downvote! Double engagement!
From socialvideoplaza.com
Also from socialvideoplaza.com
Your random quote from a random website doesn't mean much against the experience of myself and others and how massively disliked videos still get tons of traffic. If you don't want to see certain content don't dislike, just keep moving and don't engage at all. My feed only improved after doing this, when I was disliking videos I kept getting the content I disliked. I didn't engage and now I don't see content I don't want to anymore.
If you're going to keep posting this same factually incorrect comment, I'll keep posting my response:
As trustworthy a source as socialvideoplaza.com clearly is...
Google has a different take:
Mozilla also disagrees, here's a link to their study and some below articles diving into it
https://www.androidauthority.com/study-youtube-dislike-button-bad-recommendations-3210676/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2022/09/20/youtube-dislike-recommendations-mozilla/
So..it looks like affirmatively engaging with a video, even with a dislike, is engagement and is unlikely to change what types of content YT feeds you.
Now, from my anecdotal experience, the only way to remove, or reduce, unwanted content categories from your YT feed is a combination of flagging them as not interested AND searching/watching a new category of content to replace it with. Not perfect, but manageable. Oh, and using Piped/proxied services e.g. Newpipe.
I get random right and far right posts too.