Currently in the US elections are featured in my YouTube feed, and not factual content but rage inducing.
How can I filter that?
Edit: I don’t really have a full answer, but I hope that we can get the problem fixed with community-based video hosting, like the one linked above.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Turn off all history tracking for youtube (disables all recommendations). Rely solely on your subscriptions
I have the exact opposite advice lol
This is the only way. I’ve been doing it for years, in part because I absolutely hate catered content based on what I’ve viewed/read. Doing so only increases silos. At least with reddit (RIP)/Lemmy you pick from a potpourri of silos that are don’t change depending on what I’ve read.
This is the only way.
No, that’s just the only way to do it without putting in any effort.
I’ve have history enabled for years and I don’t get much of the complaints people have about YouTube; my recommendations are fine and I usually find other channels I like that way, anything I don’t like I dislike and mark as not interested and that type of content goes away after a handful of markings.
I understand the want of not being silo’d, but at the same time, I know what kind of brain rot YouTube can offer, so I’m happy to solo myself away from that dreck.
Happy with your catered silos isn’t the same thing as no silos.
My “catered silos”: motorsports, gaming, science, engineering, music, etc.
Oh no my biased opinions on whether or not the XR150L is worth buying or perhaps Minecraft Skyblock Challenge.
Please someone help me expand my views on Four Producers—One Sample, please!
I think that would give you the worst content on YouTube in your feed…
It literally turns off that feed you’re talking about?
“How do I get rid of political recommendations filling my feed”
At the extreme end - turn the feed off entirely. Then you dont get a homepage filled with political recommendations.
What am I misunderstanding?
Sorry, I thought turning off the history tracking lead to YouTube giving you a homepage full of the top trading videos? Like if you don’t log in with an account?
Hence why I included a screenshot of what my homepage shows. Is that not loading for you? There are problems with different lemmy clients not showing images.
imgur link to the same image https://imgur.com/a/NG4ITcx
Yeah I didn’t realize that’s what your homepage would just be permanently. I thought it was showing a message you get after turning off the tracking, based on the context. I now remember hearing about that changing recently, but it’s definitely not the way it used to work.
I use Newpipe to anonymously access subscriptions and nothing but. Bonus is you can download it locally as video or 160kbps .opus
this is radical suggestion, but maybe dont use youtube? its working for me.
I like the idea. Can you elaborate, please? Did you stop, or did you never start? Do you use something else instead? How do you wind down or get a quick laugh?
so, i just stopped going directly to youtube and switched to doomscrolling a meme-excessive feed [for humor]. youtube still pops up in fediverse feeds, and i will watch some things from there, but i’m not going directly to the domain.
ive never really appreciated video on the web. i prefer to stream locally. the few youtube videos i want (usually obscure vhs copies of old shit), i have my kid download into out media center.
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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
Also i find that removing stuff you want to avoid from your watch history helps
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
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
Also, you can tell YT to never recommend a channel. It’s permanent (can’t undo) but well worth the use.
Downvoting works pretty well for me
In addition, if you see a video like this, I prefer to select “don’t recommend channel”
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
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Clear or curate (remove anything political) your watch history, start liberally (hue hue) blocking shit. Install BlockTube. (uBO and SponsorBlock are also a given, just slightly less on topic)
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.
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.
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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.
Subscribe to creators you like instead of just watching random shit?
Get a chrome extension to block channels, ez pz
Stop clicking on them. YT shows it to you because it has seen you open them and watch a chunk of the video. The algorithm is dumb and can’t tell whether you watch because you like it or hate watch them. It just knows you make engagement and revenue whenever it shows you that, so it does it more.
This isn’t true. I’m constantly getting recommended all kinds of crazy right wing video nonsense and I have never clicked on a single one nor has the only other person in my house. They are picking up on something else or just pushing those videos in general.
This so much. Years ago I’ve had it push Moon landing denial videos in my recommendations, even though I’ve never watched videos on conspiracies or anything of the sort at the time. The closest I got were pop-sci channels such as Vsauce, Numberphile… It’s just trying to hook you onto the garbage content and garbage ideas because they have good and loyal viewership.
Some seemingly-innocuous channels just happen to appeal to fascists and become arbitrary entrances to the right wing YT pipeline.
I’ve noticed Big Think, Sabine Hossenfelder, lots of economics videos, and lots of less-reputable science channels tend to spur a rash of neocon content.
Yeah… Somebody is clicking them
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.
