• @woelkchen
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    1 day ago

    Unless YouTube is using that data to not recommend crappy videos, then it’s completely pointless.

    YouTube never did that anyway. YouTube recommends videos on user engagement. Thumb buttons in any direction are engagement. They have slightly hidden “don’t recommend video/channel” options for that.

    What RYD does is to show what others think.

    • Gormadt
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      61 day ago

      The fact they never used that data in video recommendations is surprising, and if they started to factor it in would have probably helped make this less of an issue

      • @woelkchen
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        71 day ago

        The fact they never used that data in video recommendations is surprising

        So you never clicked dislike, just to get recommendations for the same channel / type of video over and over again? I thought everyone figured that out by now. These are the menu items that actually do the trick: