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Ask HN: Alternative YouTube recommendation engine?

3 points| tmstieff | 4 years ago

The general consensus on HN seems to be that the Youtube recommendations are subpar. You can watch a seemingly benign video and suddenly Youtube assumes you are interested in going down the rabbit-hole on some unrelated fringe topic.

Has anyone worked on an alternative to the default recommendations engine?

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DeconBlue|4 years ago

I have not see any better recommendation algorithms.

My solution is just to use multiple accounts for different queries, and a private browsing account for general YouTube browsing.

If I find something remarkable, I can always copy the link into my main account for watch history/recommendations.

I just wish I could toggle the "Topic" tags at the top of the screen. I accidentally clicked a video link on an Tesla site and now fully 25% of my home page is Tesla related. If I could turn off the tag, then my homepage could return to normal, or at least I would expect it to.