the youtube recommendation algorithm really does not understand how i get obsessed with things at all. it's been serving me videos based on stuff i liked literally years ago and i had to hunt for them in my liked videos to get rid of them
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another use case for what i've been calling "tuning" - i want youtube to understand that i get obsessed with specific topics and only want to see videos about those topics and then when the topic changes i don't want to see any of the previous stuff at all
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i've been coping with this so far by periodically wiping my watch history but it's stupid that this isn't just a feature, surely i can't be the only person who wants to be served content this way
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okay i hunted down all the weird sources of recommendations i didn't want. it was liked videos + watch history + "watch later". not playlists afaict. tempted to wipe + pause watch history and use likes entirely for recommendations
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you should be able to click the dotted arrows below the video and then click "not interested" to reduce being recommended similar videos
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but part of the thing is it's contextual - what i actually want to tell youtube is "not interested in the current obsession cycle"
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lol you mean youtube gives you too many videos you like?
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