Hi lemmy,

youtube served me this survey today (english translation): "Which of the following issues have you encountered on the YouTube homepage today?

*The page is confusing
*I want to remove a video, but I don’t know how to do it
*I couldn’t find a particular livestream
*The “Do not recommend videos from this channel” menu option does not work
*Other problem
*None of them / not sure"

Which is funny, because I noticed when I blocked a “right wing propaganda” channel the other day in the YT shorts section it just skipped the video and played another one from the same channel.

Disclaimer: All anecdotal evidence, I can’t prove a thing, but even just the idea of me not being able to stop shitty recommendations pains me.

WTF Youtube. Stop that shit.

Edit: Minor Format tweak.

  • realharo@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    So you have zero evidence that this is actually happening?

    If it gives you video from the same channel instantly after blocking, that means nothing, these changes take a while to propagate, YouTube is a distributed system. Give it a few minutes to rebuild the feed and then try.

    How are people upvoting this crap?

    • Banzai51@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Given how much YouTube tries to push right wing propaganda down everyone’s feed, I’m not inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.

    • Tschuuuls@feddit.deOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t have evidence. That’s why I added the rumor in the title and mentioned it on the end of the post. It just never happend before in the youtube app like this. Could be pure coincidence. The only thing that concerns me is the language they use. It’s very suggestive they’ve done this in person. At least it sounds this way in German.

  • eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.siteEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Removing the do not recommend channel option would be the quickest way to get me to actually just stop using YouTube. Half the people I watch are on nebula anyway and the rest of the time saved well my wife wants me to read more anyway. Ive been a paying google play music/YouTube red/premium subscriber for 10 years but that’ll do it for me.

    • chameleon@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I find it strange Nebula is both the cheapest streaming sub I have as well as the one I get the most use out of. I will say I’m slowly getting tired of it though, it’s getting to the point it needs a block creator button. Getting rid of clickbait was a selling point but it’s starting to creep in hard, there are stupid red arrows pointing at random things and obviously poor titles all over the recent videos page. It wasn’t like this a year ago.

  • donio@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’ve give up on the Youtube homepage long time ago. Only the Subscriptions view (with shorts filtered using a userscript) and search results are usable for me.

  • sculd@beehaw.orgEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    YouTube is getting worse real fast.

    They even deleted the “sort by old videos” button to force people to watch new videos. Sometimes I just want to watch old videos and have to scroll for minutes to find old videos because you know, they don’t load unless you scroll past the newer videos.

    And why can’t I drag the timeline of shorts?

    Insanity.

    • sacredbirdman@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I use Youtube-shorts block -add-on. It rewrites the url for shorts and shows them as normal videos (because they are). IDK why they had to make a new purposefully shitty player for them.

  • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    You have to reload the page. The next video is otherwise just being cached already and the block is not applied on that. The survey has nothing to do with it. This is just you making assumptions based on your ignorance of how YT works.

    • Tschuuuls@feddit.deOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      This happend on the app. Seems a bit odd, that I have to completely restart it when blocking a video. Whats next, logging in and out after every comment?