Yup, it's amazingly bad. 'Related' videos are mostly OK, but reccomendations seem to be just a 'related' video based on something you watched ages ago. I guess most youtube viewers are browsing omnivores and don't really care how bad the stuff is as long as it makes the time pass.
At least Amazon let you fix their reccomendations.
> At least Amazon let you fix their reccomendations
You can on youtube as well. From the homepage, mouse over a recommended video and the three vertical dots appear. From there you can say "Not interested" and provide a reason.
That makes a difference, if at all, in only one direction. Amazon at least used to let you specify "I own it" for books that you own but didn't buy through them, which greatly improves their book reccomendations.
Amazon will also show you "I'm reccomending X because you bought Y", and let you say "don't use Y to reccomend me things". Youtube doesn't.
And the three dots don't appear for the one reccomended video that lurks among the related videos on the right of a video you're watching.
Yup, it's amazingly bad. 'Related' videos are mostly OK, but reccomendations seem to be just a 'related' video based on something you watched ages ago. I guess most youtube viewers are browsing omnivores and don't really care how bad the stuff is as long as it makes the time pass.
At least Amazon let you fix their reccomendations.