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Combat Pretzel posted:I don't appreciate Steve calling me a liar tho. The very first time I started the game, I found myself into a diashow of a main menu. The very first thing I disabled was DOF and everything got smooth. Steve calling you out specifically is very rude of him.
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Perhaps the game needs to stop rendering so much teeth. https://x.com/tombomp/status/1717641500891238536
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FlapYoJacks posted:Perhaps the game needs to stop rendering so much teeth. Can't they just render a country with terrible dental care, fewer teeth!!! 
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Oct 29, 2023 13:44
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:No, I don't want to see Mr. Beast ever again. I don't see any of the garbage-poo poo people mention here, and I blocked them years and years ago. (the shorts and search poo poo can gently caress off though)
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Oct 29, 2023 15:24
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Don't recommend channel is basically a 3-6 month mute that eventually shoves things back in your recs. The BlockTube extension actually does block channels from appearing anywhere in the interface and you can block individual videos with it too.
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Oct 29, 2023 15:30
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Is that true? Because I GTFO'd turds like the 8-bit Guy years ago and with my interests I'd expect to see his poo poo again by now if so. BlockTube is cool, though. I used it when I didn't watch on a phone as much.
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Oct 29, 2023 15:31
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I'm going to go against the grain here and say I literally cannot remember the last time I actually opened my subscriptions page. I watch a lot of youtube, and it is 100% through home/recommended/search.
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Oct 29, 2023 15:32
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tracecomplete posted:(the shorts and search poo poo can gently caress off though) Dear <every social media platform that isn’t TikTok>, You are not TikTok, you will never be TikTok, please stop trying to be TikTok.
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Dear <every social media platform that isn’t TikTok>, *sad Vine noises*
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FlapYoJacks posted:Perhaps the game needs to stop rendering so much teeth. A British friend talking about the game said "it's full of teeth and knickers" and I thought they were using a weird Britishism until I saw the news
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tracecomplete posted:Is that true? Because I GTFO'd turds like the 8-bit Guy years ago and with my interests I'd expect to see his poo poo again by now if so. There's either a time limit or a block cap because I've had to reblock youtube's favorite content for babies (SSSniperWolf, MrBeast, Dhar Mann, etc) and bigots (PragerU, Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, etc) multiple times over BurritoJustice posted:I'm going to go against the grain here and say I literally cannot remember the last time I actually opened my subscriptions page. I watch a lot of youtube, and it is 100% through home/recommended/search. This is me too and might be why youtube keeps shoving insane garbage at me, because like 2/3ds of my views are cooking shows and 1/3 are tech news but I also don't use subscriptions or likes or notifications at all so my recommendation algorithm must be a mess
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Oct 29, 2023 15:48
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I've never, ever had any of the mainstream (SSSniperWolf, MrBeast, etc) or right wing (JP, Rogan, etc) poo poo appear on my feed. Occasionally something I watch will taint the results a little bit, not in a harmful way but just weighting it towards something I am not that interested in, but if I just ignore those things or choose "Not Interested" they go away after a day or two. You can also filter the feed using the little labels at the top which I find quite useful and is also a bit of a clue as to why certain things might be appearing. I use subscriptions (but mostly I interact with it through new videos appearing in the feed, as opposed to using the subscriptions page) but I never use likes, playlists, watch later, or anything like that. I imagine regularly interacting with your front page by clicking on the videos you like and not clicking on (or dismissing) the videos you don't over the course of many years is the best way to get a feed that works for you and is resilient to bullshit. Volte fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Oct 29, 2023 |
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Oct 29, 2023 15:55
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In fairness my recommendations have been weird lately too, but it's weird on the "you watch one particular Rimworld content creator, so here's a parade of let's plays of similar games from people with 200 views". I guess I'd rather that than whatever low opinion of you the algorithm has for y'all.
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Oct 29, 2023 16:00
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beep by grandpa posted:While we're talking about youtube, recently when I watch new content creators and they instruct me to hit subscribe and to ring the bell I have been wondering if it is common knowledge on "why" everyone started asking people to hit that bell in the first place, and by now we have so many younger folks who came on the platform after that whole thing bubbled up and I wonder what the accepted justification for asking that is now. I don’t know about any of this. I do know it’s impossible to use my subscription list to tell when the channels I want to watch have new videos. There’s a section of highlighted channels at the top where I have no idea how it gets populated, since it never shows the channel I watch religiously every week when there’s an update. I have to search for that channel manually or scroll through the lengthy subscription list that appears to be randomly sorted.
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Volte posted:I've never, ever had any of the mainstream (SSSniperWolf, MrBeast, etc) or right wing (JP, Rogan, etc) poo poo appear on my feed. Occasionally something I watch will taint the results a little bit, not in a harmful way but just weighting it towards something I am not that interested in, but if I just ignore those things or choose "Not Interested" they go away after a day or two. You can also filter the feed using the little labels at the top which I find quite useful and is also a bit of a clue as to why certain things might be appearing. Yes but the point some of us are making is that we don't watch anything even peripherally related to these channels (I have never watched any reaction videos but will still get SSSniperWolf recommended, I have never watched a sniveling racist sob on camera but will still get Jordan Peterson recommended, etc) and will get them recommended again months later even after explicitly telling youtube to not recommend their channels by name. There's either a time limit or block limit on "don't recommend" so I'll get my homepage pruned to nothing but content I like, but then within a few months there'll be a tidal wave of videos with oversaturated thumbnails of a dead-eyed presenter next to the word "FAKE?" or "WOKE" where apparently I won't BELIEVE what happens next!!
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Disable inline playback, it puts poo poo into history and thus simply hovering over a video for two seconds will mark it as watched. Killing it made recommendations a lot more predictable for me.
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Oct 29, 2023 16:24
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I'm not doubting that it's appearing for you against your wishes, but it could be appearing either because of something else you're watching that the algorithm erroneously thinks is related to those things (which you might be able to figure out by filtering by the labels at the top to see what category it's basing the recommendation on) or because you're not engaging with your feed enough for it to not dip into the "What's popular on YouTube in general?" well to fill it out. I've been using the YouTube feed almost exclusively as my portal to YT videos for like 5 or 6 years and have never once had any of that stuff appear. I've never even told it to never show it to me, it just doesn't show it to me, and the list of categories it does show me are all sensible based on what I've been watching. I don't know what the difference is between our usage habits, but I think the answer lies there.
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The MrBeast not appearing, that I cannot believe. There has to be something remotely adjacent, that you're watching, that will eventually trigger his poo poo to appear.
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On my life I've never seen a single MrBeast video on my feed edit: I do occasionally get a random video that, when I click it, all the comments are like "Hello algorithm, why was this 70 view video recommended to literally everyone", but I've never gotten any huge mainstream videos recommended to me outside of my normal feed stuff
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Volte posted:On my life I've never seen a single MrBeast video on my feed yeah, the only time I’ve seen his face is when other YouTubers that I do follow (various breadtubers, etc) make videos about him or inspired by him, but never anything from him directly
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One thing I noticed after youtube started blocking ublock and I had to get ads is it clearly thinks I shoot guns and am conservative. I am neither.
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Volte posted:I'm not doubting that it's appearing for you against your wishes, but it could be appearing either because of something else you're watching that the algorithm erroneously thinks is related to those things (which you might be able to figure out by filtering by the labels at the top to see what category it's basing the recommendation on) or because you're not engaging with your feed enough for it to not dip into the "What's popular on YouTube in general?" well to fill it out. I've been using the YouTube feed almost exclusively as my portal to YT videos for like 5 or 6 years and have never once had any of that stuff appear. I've never even told it to never show it to me, it just doesn't show it to me, and the list of categories it does show me are all sensible based on what I've been watching. I don't know what the difference is between our usage habits, but I think the answer lies there. I mean you got it on the head, the answer is you're not engaging with your feed enough for it to not dip into the "What's popular on YouTube in general?" well to fill it out basically. I have maybe three or four channels I watch with any regularity, maybe a dozen more sporadically and that's about it, and since they only update here and there my feed only gets a couple new videos a day to show me - and because I don't feed the algorithm anything it can work with it just keeps insisting this time, this time I might like Popular Thing even though I said I don't repeatedly. It has been better lately, I've also been seeing a lot more sub-100 view videos which I'll take any day of the week over the alternative, but I do miss the days where Mr. Bean compilations and local news bloopers were the go-to recommendations for blank slates instead of, well.
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FlapYoJacks posted:Perhaps the game needs to stop rendering so much teeth. Paving the way for an eventual re-skin / mod for StarFleet Dental Total Conversion. Hey, has Linus been called to account for his crimes against accuracy and letting his staff harass themselves yet? I suspect not, nor will he ever be, he will just keep dropping CPUs onto the floor and sheepishly stare into the camera while saying 'still good' Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Oct 29, 2023 |
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Volte posted:On my life I've never seen a single MrBeast video on my feed I’m in the same boat. I assume I blocked Mr beast eons ago. The closest I get is other YouTubers doing Mr beast-adjacent stuff every once in a while, to which I just hit “not interested”
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Binary Badger posted:Hey, has Linus been called to account for his crimes against accuracy and letting his staff harass themselves yet? Saying anything about an ongoing investigation is a surefire way to get obliterated by lawyers so I'm sure he's had everybody around him tell him to shut the gently caress up. We probably won't hear anything for a long time and the most likely outcome will be a quiet "settled out of court" type thing. Hopefully that will be followed by an update of their policies or whatever but who knows. For the accuracy? Yeah I doubt that's ever gonna happen.
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TheCoach posted:Disable inline playback, it puts poo poo into history and thus simply hovering over a video for two seconds will mark it as watched. Killing it made recommendations a lot more predictable for me. Oh, sweet! 
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Youtube did serve me a couple of right-wing ads after I turned off adblock a couple weeks ago, one from jorp and a 5 minute trailer for some anti-trans movie. I reported the latter as a bad/harmful ad and haven't seen anything like it since. Don't see too many midroll ads, most are at the beginning and end of videos and those are easy to skip.
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tracecomplete posted:Does "don't recommend channel" not work for you? There is a whole pile of channels I've set to 'don't recommend' and they still show up every few months. I'm constantly swatting flies with in that god forsaken platform.
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The most likely reason people think the remove channel button is temporary (it isn't) is because they're pruning their Google/YouTube activity and/or have a limit on how long Google keeps your data set. If you ignore a channel, like, watch or interact with a channel/video in any way on January 1st with a 6month retention policy, it'll treat it like it never happened on 1st July.
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I have no data retention rules set up for google / youtube so it isn't that when it's happened to me  it's not like it's an uncommon problem, there's hundreds of hits on google of people bitching about the same thing
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I just let Youtube feed me whatever it wants that week. Sometimes the algo decides that I'm into cigars so for the week I'll just watch cigar videos until it stops. I truly live for the madness.
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Shipon posted:it's 15 bucks a month for premium why are people acting like it's some human rights violation lol It was 10 bucks a month. $10/mo is my limit for paying for a website that does not result in me getting more money from using it, so I ended up canceling the moment the price hike was announced.
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Skeezy posted:I just let Youtube feed me whatever it wants that week. Sometimes the algo decides that I'm into cigars so for the week I'll just watch cigar videos until it stops. I wonder if CONRADCIGARSPIPES is still alive
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Flagrama posted:It was 10 bucks a month. $10/mo is my limit for paying for a website that does not result in me getting more money from using it, so I ended up canceling the moment the price hike was announced. VPN to India and pay like $3 then
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No price is too high if it means I don't have to watch political ads for the 2024 cycle.
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Everyone has a different use case for YouTube, and there is only one paid option that doesn't satisfy everyone's requirements. Premium is valued ~$15 and includes YouTube Music, and stand-alone YouTube Music is competitively priced against Apple Music and Spotify Premium (all at $11/month). I think if you're a YouTube Music user, then it's easier to justify the cost of paying for YouTube Premium. You're paying $15 ($11 for YouTube Music plus $4 for ad-free/background play YouTube) If you're not using YouTube Music, I think you'd have to watch a lot of YouTube videos to justify the cost, and for a lot of people that's going to be the case why they don't want to pay the $15. It'd be better if there was a YouTube Premier lower tier that was like $3-4/month that didn't include YouTube Music, but Google has essentially merged their music service into YouTube so who the hell knows if that would work.
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I will simply continue to block ads. Also its funny that I'm now getting video recs talking specifically about how to get around the message, though I also haven't seen that message in a while so Youtube's probably lost this fight.
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Yeah, I was already a YouTube Music user, and I already had the family plan since my folks use it as well. The extra few bucks a month to be sure I don't see ads and can listen to the audio stream only from videos on my phone is worth it.
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njsykora posted:. Also its funny that I'm now getting video recs talking specifically about how to get around the message, Big "use LimeWire free to download LimeWire pro" energy
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MarcusSA posted:VPN to India and pay like $3 then Google/Alphabet will be ratcheting the price up guaranteed. They have to. That sweet, sweet monthly revenue is irresistible and after the profits flat-line (or don't rise enough) they will have no choice but to raise them again because of ~shareholder value~ slidebite fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Oct 31, 2023 |
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