For every video that appears that's from a channel I subscribed to --or one in which I've watched videos of without subscribing-- I get some suggestions that came from out of nowhere.
Like this:
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| I don't play Final Fantasy VII, never have, and probably never will. But I ain't blind, you know. |
Or this:
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| As if you didn't know, the picture --and likely the rain sounds-- are AI generated. |
Or even this:
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| What I did not know was that tents that use inflatable "tubes" as supports are apparently a thing. Not exactly sure how that'd work, but it is a thing. |
And that's not even counting the YouTube videos of women "trying on" see through clothing, which suddenly blew through my feed and then vanished after a couple of weeks. To which I had to ask just how those videos got past the YouTube "adult" filters.
I mean, I get where all of the screencaps of the videos above are similar --I am a guy, after all-- but why these videos suddenly made their appearance is beyond my understanding. But there they were, intermixed with videos about D&D, sports, woodworking, MMOs, and other forms of gaming.
Oh well. If I don't respond to their pretty obvious clickbait, they'll go away after a few weeks. But even my oldest has been getting these sorts of videos in her feed, and she's been annoyed by them as well.
I posted about the YouTube recommend algorithm once, a lon time ago, ithink. There was a time when it really annoyed me, although I have never had it push anything like the stuff you're getting in my direction.
ReplyDeleteI did some research on it back then and made some changes to my settings and installed a couple of add-ons to Firefox and things got much, much better after that. I pretty much only get directly relevant
suggestions on my PC now.
On my laptop, though, where I haven't made the same adjustments, I get a large number of completely irrelevant recommendations but they are almost all political or socio-cultural. I find those a lot more annoying than the more obviously commercial ones. Imight have to sort out my filters on the Laptop soon, now I've started using it again.
I think I ought to take a hard look at my Subscriptions just to see what I really would like to keep and what might be feeding these sort of results. I did just review my settings in Google and tightened things up a bit, but I'm not convinced that'll do that much good.
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