As far as I can tell, there is no way to block and individual channel from YouTube recommendations right? Or turn off recommendations? Can one even block a video?
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No, but been programming them since a wee one, and my job is to figure all this out and I couldn’t. Neither could tona of people who replied. Which speaks to the situation: even if the option exists, it’s buried.https://twitter.com/prezntval/status/1093338968064548864 …
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So, it seems that there is no way to tell YouTube to BLOCK "white rationalist" blah blah videos appearing on a minors' recommendations. You can try to dislike stuff and pray to the algorithm deities. No real controls―which would be *so* easy to implement—as far as I can tell.
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YouTube is a key hub of culture diffusion globally and it's helping set the world on fire. It happens slowly so harder to measure but eventually there will be studies and UN reports and documentation of its ugly role. This, not the moonshots, will be how its history is written.
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Maybe there are convoluted ways that already involved parents can manage this but that isn't helpful at all. Recommendations, autoplay and everything in this trash fire should be off by default and be very limited when on. Yes, not so lucrative but it's the only responsible path.
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Aren't you like a computer genius??
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What we want is an option that allows "non computer geniuses" turning off some features.
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It doesn’t seem to work for me on mobile, but that option appears on the website.
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This is less a hard/soft block than instructions to train the recommendation algorithm.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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confirm it works. the issue is that it is a never-ending game of whac-a-channel. There are new channels coming up daily and you whac 10 only to get recommended the next 11. Source: "I don't like this channel" multiple times per day.
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aargh, right
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