Have YouTube's recommendations gotten worse?
I watch a lot of YouTube. Most days a few hours, so they have a lot of data on what I watch. My google account is ancient, It's been with me since the start of gmail and became a YT account when they took over. Lately the recommendations that I get are a lot more repetitive than they used to be. I get recommended the same videos over and over, sometimes I even get recommended things I would never have seen in my feed years ago - things that are of no interest that used to be outside of my bubble for the longest time. I also see tons of videos that I know that I have watched being marked as un-watched and recommended again and again. I don't know if this is imagined of if their algorithms have become terrible lately. Anyone else have this feeling?
Absolutely horrendous. My kid likes Starfishes. It goes from pretty starfish living to starfish being ripped apart in a span of few videos. I wasn't paying attention when I started one video from him then in a span of 10mins he is now scarred for life. Absolutely no YouTube for kids and for me, I download what I want to watch bc I tend to watch them again but hate their recommendations. Their Algo is simply the worst...WORST.
Absolutely spot on! Glad to see I am not the only one pondering about it.
It has gotten so bad that I try to log out or use incognito to find new stuff.
Tiktok on the other hand is amazing at surfacing stuff that I am actually find interesting.
Personally I think YouTube is only showing me what it knows for sure I am interested in vs TikTok actually trying to explore and exploit what I might be interested in.