At some point I was really disillusioned by YouTube and I tried really hard to curate a list of interested channels. But YouTube fought extremely hard against users interests and completely broke YouTube. I have several subscriptions that get buried and forgotten because YouTube refuses to recommend them to me.
The solution would be simple, an inbox of videos, rss style. But that’s not in YouTube’s interest.
I bookmark the channels I like and then go through one by one to check if they have something new, old school style. It’s kind of interesting that way because it feels more personal. It’s more like choosing something to watch from netflix from your saved list or similar to those.
I ran into a problem when they stopped recommending videos if you don’t allow them to save your search/viewing history. When I realized the extreme amount of data that this provides them, to the extent that their algorithms can likely identify what mental health issues people have that they may not even be aware of themselves, I tried to give them as little detail as I could.
For sure! Actually, i’ve been spending more and more time just watching old videos at archive.org. Old government videos, old reel to reel educational films, and on and on…
I turned off watch history which disables recommendations so my youtube homepage is blank but I always get notifications from channels I’m subscribed to
At some point I was really disillusioned by YouTube and I tried really hard to curate a list of interested channels. But YouTube fought extremely hard against users interests and completely broke YouTube. I have several subscriptions that get buried and forgotten because YouTube refuses to recommend them to me.
The solution would be simple, an inbox of videos, rss style. But that’s not in YouTube’s interest.
I bookmark the channels I like and then go through one by one to check if they have something new, old school style. It’s kind of interesting that way because it feels more personal. It’s more like choosing something to watch from netflix from your saved list or similar to those.
Sure, but I have accumulated far too many over the years to do this… Some channels post a video per year, others 5 per week.
Yeah, that makes sense on how that would be hard. I only have 20 and then post weeklyish.
I ran into a problem when they stopped recommending videos if you don’t allow them to save your search/viewing history. When I realized the extreme amount of data that this provides them, to the extent that their algorithms can likely identify what mental health issues people have that they may not even be aware of themselves, I tried to give them as little detail as I could.
No watch history plus subscriptions is the way to go.
For sure! Actually, i’ve been spending more and more time just watching old videos at archive.org. Old government videos, old reel to reel educational films, and on and on…
I turned off watch history which disables recommendations so my youtube homepage is blank but I always get notifications from channels I’m subscribed to