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Okay but YouTube suggested videos are genuinely way worse than they used to be. I can't even fall down rabbit holes anymore. Trying to "curate" the algorithm is like swimming against the current. I can try and try to get YouTube to recommend me live music, but even when I manage to find something, the next video is going to be either a video I already watched yesterday or Rick Beato's daily rant about the top 40. Every time.
I used to be able to spend hours just browsing, drifting from topic to topic. Now it's like they're trying to trap me in a loop of their most profitable videos
Lately, I go on a 30-minute "Not Interested" spree on the recommendations feed when I need to weed things out. I burn everything that I know I'm never going to watch. I have 500+ subscriptions and the ratio of those with new content to trash the algorithm hands me is too damn low. So I have to set it straight some times. After this correcting action, things are noticeably better for about a month.
Another move is to right-click and open unfamiliar stuff in an incognito/privacy window. This helps keep similar material out of your feed.
Been different for me, found a lot of good new channels through the side bar more recently, but sometimes it is just the same channels video in the whole bar.
Back when I was using YouTubes site, about once a month shorts would absolutely hit home and they would just be great for one day. I'd come back the next day and it would just be absolute trash.
But since then I've decided to try to stay the f*** away from the algorithms.
Youtube hooks me with really interesting shorts and within a couple shorts it always derails to the worst brain melting garbage. I really don't get it.