Currently in the US elections are featured in my YouTube feed, and not factual content but rage inducing.
How can I filter that?
Some shit gets injected by region or time of day. I live in a red state and get obnoxious red state hobbys that I am either not interested in or only minorly interested in and the ads are even worse.
Personally I prefer not to be fed by the algorithm. I bookmarked ‘subscriptions’, check for new ones and if there aren’t any I go do something else.
Find a healthy hobby out-of-doors.
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
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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
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
Also i find that removing stuff you want to avoid from your watch history helps
In addition, if you see a video like this, I prefer to select “don’t recommend channel”
Downvoting works pretty well for me
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
Also, you can tell YT to never recommend a channel. It’s permanent (can’t undo) but well worth the use.
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
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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.
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.
I’m not subscribed to anyone on youtube, but my feed is pretty good. Every time i see something i don’t like or care i hit the three dots and choose: don’t recommend channel, and then they slowly go away.
YT wants to keep you watching YT, so:
- stop watching rage bait videos
- watch only videos you want on your feed
- thumbs up videos you want more of
- “not interested” videos you dont want
- hide users that post rage bait material
- 66 😈
Hide no longer works. They only thing it does is stop them from showing up in the comments of videos you post.
I kept seeing a commenter in a genre of video I watch, and wanted to get rid of them, but there is no way to block or hide a user except to remove them from the comments on your channel.
Subscribe to creators you like instead of just watching random shit?
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 have a question
Why is election stuff rage inducing? Like what’s an example of a thumbnail you would see that would induce rage?
Example: Thumbnail with Trump and some other guy i dont know, big caption: “OH MY GOD!” Video title: “Trump Released the MOST EMBARRASSING Video EVER & You HAVE to Watch it! | Bulkwark Takes”
I assume it is designed to induce rage.
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That is clickbait nonsense. I think it’s designed to induce as revenue. I generally don’t watch and avoid all versions of it, electoral and not (“You won’t BELIEVE what this HERO CAT did for Pennsylvania mother of 3”)… I get what you’re saying and it’s dumb but why does it cause you rage?
For me, it does not induce rage but depression because it makes me sad. I don’t even need to watch it.
If seeing dumb video thumbnails on YouTube impacts your mood I think you need to stay away from YouTube.
I highly recommend the DeArrow extension. I was on a waiting list after installing, for a few days, and then once I got access it has made the entire YouTube experience much better.
The extension removes clickbait thumbnails (replacing them with a part of the video itself), and clickbait titles are replaced with more accurate descriptions. It’s all done by a big community, so the more popular videos are likely to have the edits, however overall it certainly is a better experience for me.
I use YouTube almost exclusively for ASMR, metal forging, and engineering disaster documentaries. That’s all my recommended feed is now. YouTube wants you to watch things on there and keep watching them, the algorithm really doesn’t care what you watch to do that. The more you watch non-political stuff and avoid/immediately click away from political stuff, the more it will recommend non-political stuff.