Unfortunately, it'll pick up recommendations from watching one thing one time, so watching that one video your weird uncle sent you is enough to pollute your algorithm with his weirdo shit.

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shalmanese 5 hours ago | parent [-]

You can mark a video as not to influence your recommendations or delete it from your YouTube history.

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fragmede 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes but you have to go and do that. GP was making it sound like GGP was watching crazy uncle videos to make the algorithm do that, when in reality, one errant click will pollute your suggestions unless you know to go and delete it.

New prank on someone that left their laptop unlocked. Open YouTube to something they hate and then close it before they get back.

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johnnyanmac 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You do need to take care in pruning videos you don't normally watch. Either remove from watch history, mark as not interested, or just thumbs downing the video.

But at least you still have that ability compared to most platforms.

	▲	ChoGGi a minute ago \| parent [-]
		Isn't the thumbs down only from a third party extension? Does YouTube recommendations pay attention to it?

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ryandrake 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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