Hey YouTube....just a thought but when I click on the "YouTube featured" headers on my page to say I'm not interested in such then perhaps try and pay some ****ing attention and adjust my algorithmic feed to stop serving them up every time I refresh the page, same with the amount of shorts you constantly attempt to push my way.....I'm not ****ing interested in the shorts, never watched one in my life as I do not have an issue with my attention span so take this as advice and sort your ****ing act out and stop filling my feed with inane ****ing parasitic shite, I've paid for YouTube premium for over 10 years and lately it is doing my ****ing head in so there's a good chance I'll cancel and explore add blockers etc.
rant over....and yeah....I did send the above to YouTube premium
Am I the only one?....
1, youtube throttle bandwidth if you don't pay premium, and more so when they detect add blockers.
2, Use an addon to block shorts
3, google don't give a flying **** about user experience....
I've found YT to be one of the least worst platforms for this. Every now and again I need to tell it im not interested in a video or not to recommend a channel but it stays mostly on track. I am on premium though, mainly to make it work when backgrounded.
Not so long ago, Youtube and Facebook were in competition to see who could have the most amnesia for user settings.
Youtube: say not interested in shorts, refresh page, a whole row of shorts appears
Facebook: change setting to most recent first, refresh page, setting has instantly reverted to the retarded way it was before
From what I can tell, Youtube never actually abides by your preference, and goes by what you have seen before. You can tell it as many times as you like that you are not interested or don't want to see a specific channel, but if you have watched one, then you were interested, therefore it will reappear in your recommendations again at some point. Not watching and simply ignoring does a better job at being recommended less than telling them.
I do quite a bit more in ingcognito. If there is any doubt that something might be AI slop or clickbait, I watch in incognito
And on the telly/firestick, use Smarttube, where there are some decent controls to filter out all the shorts etc.
Google mail, reported an ad, got a reply saying, yes it did contravene the rules and was indeed a phishing ad. Received it every day since.
I put a short on YouTube the other day.... random vid of walking along the strandline and a mtb vid using the bear grylls voice.
1000+ views ?
https://youtube.com/shorts/Y1_wBQV_z4s?si=btFFF5fjunBxXQZV
https://youtube.com/shorts/V1-iI2eYTHc?si=qYt75fIrpVUk8xgv
Dont forget to like and subscribe... to mess with R'ithm ;_)
Wo actually pays for Youtube? Maybe!
Ad free music and YouTube for £25 or so a month for 4 people. It's not bad value really.
What the OP complains about is spot on for other social media providers.
Facebook's algorithm seems to go through phases of aggressively pushing gambling and drink adverts at me. I'm a practically non-gambling (I might spend £20 once a year if I get invited to the races), close to tee totaller. I always mark "not interested" or "don't show this again". Those buttons seem to be totally ineffective if anything it's like encouragement - almost like an interaction so you must want more...
OTOH I never see those ads, unless you count AF beers. Maybe it's just that you need to "feed" the algorithm with something you actually might be interested in? Mind you, perhaps it's better your way as you're less likely to be influenced to buy 😂
ads?
only ones I get are Youtube trying really hard to get me to sign up to Premium, Premium Lite, Premium student edition, etc.
I never click the dismiss button, and just instantly scroll past.
oh and in-vid adverts that appear as a real part of the content with a clever segway, advertising something that content creator sells, not 3rd party tat or shilling VPNs.
What annoys me that if I watch a video about one thing that I need to find out how to do and then never need to see it ever again, I get recommended the same stuff for weeks on end…… grrrr
1, youtube throttle bandwidth if you don't pay premium, and more so when they detect add blockers
they do? Content plays smoothly for me?
Agree on all the other points though.
I started using the Duckduckgo browser for the auto cookie popup swatter and for not tracking you. What I didn’t realise is it has a built in ‘clutter remover’ and a dedicated YouTube player that ‘greatly improves the user experience!’
I just watch it on my LG TV or iPhone. Get adds during the videos but that’s it.
I’ve never thought the need to buy a subscription
It does a pretty good job of showing me stuff I’m interested in, sometimes it clearly moves away from stuff I like so recently started subscribing to channels so I don’t loose them
From what I can tell, Youtube never actually abides by your preference, and goes by what you have seen before. You can tell it as many times as you like that you are not interested or don't want to see a specific channel, but if you have watched one, then you were interested, therefore it will reappear in your recommendations again at some point. Not watching and simply ignoring does a better job at being recommended less than telling them.
I guess that's the enshittification part, I have YT Music and get ad free YT with that (apart from people who drop ads in as part of their content "I'd just like to stop and talk about Round space/Worser Life/Some other crap" but YT updates to my preferences more or less instantly. I'm more often than not surprised by how quickly my feed changes.
I keep meaning to swap Music service to try some others, but then they don't include the sort of ad free YT.
Edit, I've two in the household actively using YT paid. I could save £2 a month and go to Tidal individual, or pay an extra £4 to keep us both and free. Similar for Spotify.
I do watch an awful lot of YT videos where the content is made by individuals just making stuff I'm interested in.
It's pretty dispiriting. Using any large platform these days just feels inherently antagonistic. They're constantly pushing at the boundary of how much shit they can get away with without inducing you to bin them altogether.
It's pretty dispiriting. Using any large platform these days just feels inherently antagonistic. They're constantly pushing at the boundary of how much shit they can get away with without inducing you to bin them altogether.
I pay for YouTube basically because I watch a lot of climbing vids and the ads were pissing me off. Now I'm ad- free I do watch more stuff across a range of interests - even some MTB stuff!
I find it pretty good now I pay - my only beef is that you watch one video on eg WW2 tanks 🙂 and you get swamped with stuff about tanks.
One minor bonus is when I listen to podcasts on YouTube music I don't have the mid-podcast adverts, especially noticeable on ...the rest is...
I genuinely think the adverts are there mainly to piss you off so you get premium.