The algorithm keeps pushing their shit at me no matter how much I ignore or downvote
I don't login, I clear my YT site cookies every few weeks, sometimes a couple times a week if I had been looking for a specific tutorial (bc then it will just feed me that over and over) and I use Block Tube browser extension.
Not 100% sure how it works honestly, since I'm never logged in, but when the algorithm feeds me shit, I block most/all of it, and then leave the site.
YouTube's algorithm is almost completely designed around keeping you on the site consuming more videos (and ads), so they'll only feed you what keeps you there longest. If feeding you woke shit doesn't keep you there, the cookies know that, and the algorithm will lament that you left and feed you what you actually want next time you're there... at least for a day or two.
After clearing cookies, I immediately search for and watch at least 1 video from my regular dozen or so channels, and then it's feeding me something new. And when it starts feeding me shit, I block and leave.
I started doing this a while ago. After years of not clearing YT site cookies it started feeding me 100% woke shit and MSM news from local news channels (since I had blocked all the others) as far away as New Zealand and UK and Canada. So I logged out, w/o clearing cookies, and it treated me like a bot constantly telling me to login.
Then I started doing this and it's recommending based content 85% of the time. Weird isn't it?
I don't login, I clear my YT site cookies every few weeks, sometimes a couple times a week if I had been looking for a specific tutorial (bc then it will just feed me that over and over) and I use Block Tube browser extension.
Not 100% sure how it works honestly, since I'm never logged in, but when the algorithm feeds me shit, I block most/all of it, and then leave the site.
YouTube's algorithm is almost completely designed around keeping you on the site consuming more videos (and ads), so they'll only feed you what keeps you there longest. If feeding you woke shit doesn't keep you there, the cookies know that, and the algorithm will lament that you left and feed you what you actually want next time you're there... at least for a day or two.
After clearing cookies, I immediately search for and watch at least 1 video from my regular dozen or so channels, and then it's feeding me something new. And when it starts feeding me shit, I block and leave.
I started doing this a while ago. After years of not clearing YT site cookies it started feeding me 100% woke shit and MSM news from local news channels (since I had blocked all the others) as far away as New Zealand and UK and Canada. So I logged out, w/o clearing cookies, and it treated me like a bot constantly telling me to login.
Then I started doing this and it's recommending based content 85% of the time. Weird isn't it?