Cleared my youtube out today of channels I don't watch and videos I had liked for no reason, ended up purging like 100 plus channels and 300 liked videos. (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago by SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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It's so asinine to me that youtube curates your feed based off watch history rather than liked and subscribed to channels. Not to mention the failed shorts category which tried to compete with tiktok and is now you're annoying little brother who nags you.

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[-] bleepbloopbop@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I turn off watch history entirely gigachad-hd

It nags you to turn it back on and completely disables the homepage recommended/popular feed but I've grown to like it a lot. I still go through my subscriptions tab to find stuff to watch, and I still get related videos on individual videos that I watch that I can hop to if I want to explore outside that bubble of existing subscriptions. It's like going back to 2014 youtube or whenever they started making the homepage purely algorithmic

[-] red_stapler@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

Yeah I go back and clear things from my watch history if I don’t want that to be my whole feed.

[-] someone@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

I just watch in an incognito Firefox window, with plain old browser bookmarks being my "like" and "subscribe" methods.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

I'm too lazy to go back and delete all the animal videos I watched which now make the algorithm suggest violent content to me. Hopefully watching more retro gaming stuff changes that.

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