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Thank you Google for breaking my YouTube addiction

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107 points ambigious7777 | 5 comments | 18 May 25 11:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.647s | source
1. meetingthrower ◴[18 May 25 12:16 UTC] No.44020783[source]▶
Totally! Why does it show the same damn videos I've skipped over 20 times? I don't want to watch them obviously!
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2. johnisgood ◴[18 May 25 12:23 UTC] No.44020836[source]▶
They have ruined recommendations, too, a long time ago. They ruined search, too. If you search for something, it will give you maybe 5 results at best, and as you scroll down, the rest is totally unrelated to the searched term. YouTube has been ruined a long time ago.
3. Euphorbium ◴[18 May 25 13:19 UTC] No.44021223[source]▶
Because you have not pressed “do not recommend channel”. That is the best youtube feature.
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4. 57FkMytWjyFu ◴[18 May 25 13:32 UTC] No.44021309[source]▶
You should know that do not recommend channel has never really worked. Especially if there are any videos from that channel in your history.... ever.
5. mvdtnz ◴[18 May 25 21:23 UTC] No.44024399[source]▶
It's very annoying if I do want to see that channel, just not THAT video. You also have to be careful with that button because there's no way to selectively unblock channels. There's a feature to undo your entire Do Not Recommend / Not Interested history but not to undo it for an individual channel / video.