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Do you use the "not interested"/"don't recommend channel" options on these, or report them?

If not, it may be worth a try. They seem to do a lot to steer Youtube's recommender away from the more gamy regions of its latent space; for example, something like a year ago I saw recommended such a video, immediately reported it for "violent or repulsive content", and thus far haven't seen another. The same has been true for the occasional weirdo along the stripe of modern Russell Brand.

To be clear, I don't think the report was acted upon by Youtube, but I do think the signal inherent in the action must be accounted for in its recommendation model.

Also to be clear, this is no defense of Youtube. It's pretty trash these days, and even the most innocuous recommendations I get have very little to do with anything I'm actually interested in, but this does seem to keep it from getting the idea I might want to see incels and gore.




There's no option to block a channel or "don't recommend" from search results, at least in the android app. Afaik that's only available in the feed.


Yup, no option on desktop either. This is obviously not based on viewing history, YouTube is doing something weird just with the recommendations embedded into search results.

For me these "you also might like" sections in search results are 50 woodworking and 50 gross out garbage.


It's nice to know my misery has company.


It's nice to know that as poorly as I think of Youtube, that's still a significant overestimation...




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