• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    87
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    9 months ago

    You can fix your YouTube algorithm by going into your watching history and deleting the videos you don’t want used for recommendations!

    • Joelk111@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      34
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      9 months ago

      Also, tap the three dots on videos you don’t want to watch and select don’t recommend channel or not interested.

      • Herbal Gamer
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        24
        ·
        9 months ago

        You’d be surprised how good youtube is at finding similar crap.

      • ScoopMcPoops@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        21
        ·
        9 months ago

        There’s this one streamer/YouTuber I used to watch a lot, but after some controversy I didn’t feel comfortable watching him anymore. For months now I’ve been telling YouTube to stop recommending his channel and it still pops up.

      • xx3rawr
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        9 months ago

        Ha! That doesn’t work for a decade now

    • Octopus1348@lemy.lol
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, like a month ago my YT recommendations were dry, plus and I wanted to delete all my search history and turn it off, but I couldn’t do that without clearing my watch history too. So I did that and the algorithm was fixed!

      The only problem was that it recommended videos I already watched.

    • xx3rawr
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      9 months ago

      I manually clear my history once in a while. I used to have it turned off to force the algorithim to only work with my Liked videos but can’t do that anymore. It will pretend that they can’t recommend anything unless the history is turned on.

    • Ech@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      9 months ago

      Also, use a private window or app for viewing videos outside of the “norm”. I do this for pretty much everything I click through on Lemmy and some channels I just don’t want to ruin my feed.