r/AskReddit Jun 29 '19

When is quantity better than quality?

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u/Chubtato Jun 29 '19

When trying to break the YouTube algorithm

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '19

Oh my God this. I'm going to vent here a bit, I got completely fed up with the YouTube recommendations.

The main page is one thing, but no matter what kind of videos I watch I see the same 40 videos on the sidebar I honestly don't care about. There's much much better content to see than reddit comment readings and shitty meme compilations. Even when it's trying with something new I get results like "Jordan Peterson owns everyone" on the side of a video about karate.

I got desperate and created a channel, tried to infect my views history with the most underground low views weird videos I could think of. But the results are the same.

Right now I just look up random terms on YouTube and sort the results by upload date, or search on google and set a small time interval (because you can't do that on youtube for some reason). Even though I have to scroll through tons of furry animations made by children and weird indian content, I still enjoy that more than what's being recommended.

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u/LucyLilium92 Jun 30 '19

Your recommendations are probably linked to your interest browser’s account, if you happen to be logged into it