I get the most random shit suggested to me now like streams from some kid with 40 views or webinar recordings from random companies

RSS feeds will be 25 years old in March, and still manage to be so much better than any "suggestion" tool tech companies have shat out

Adding before:2030 to the search string will remove the suggestions.

Shit is so inconsistent. When I do YouTube searches it'll do the first 5 as relevant then random videos that have nothing to do with my search

A month or two ago i started getting 200 view lets plays, always in the same slot on the front page

Yes and my god give me suggestions to people I'm subscribed to and not random frickin creators

honestly, i have the exact opposite problem. It will show me all the videos from a creator and then start repeating videos... like neighbor I watched this yesterday... Don't yall have some similar content?

Its called the subscriptions tab i cant even use home or recommended anymore since ive had search history off for years

I stopped paying for youtube red because of this

For what it's worth, at least on the home page you can use the three dots menu and say "not interested" or "don't suggest this channel". It gets the message pretty quickly.

I've been getting fricking asian golfing videos for weeks! It's nonsense

One of three reasons:

• If you get people into rabbit holes where they start consuming content that they've never seen before, or at least try out unseen videos (and thus see more ads) before making it to the one they want, then Youtube makes more money.

• The ROI for unfricking the search algorithm isn't worth it

• The search algorithm is so complex and opaque that employees don't even know what's going on

Hate that so much. I can search for something kind of specific and get like three related videos and the rest of them are completely unrelated or are videos I already watched like a week earlier from channels I am subscribed to.

>corpos can r*pe me as much as they want, as long as I don't have to see BIPOC Hessians

!nonchuds this is what chuds actually believe

It's 2024.

You are not allowed to collect and/or show data why certain (((demographics))) are bad at participating in societies which build success from prior success.

But this is corporatism not capitalism

See? Maybe DEI and diversity hires were the only thing keeping Google good?!?!?

Looks like capitalism has a way of fixing shit (albeit slow) when the government isn't stimulating wall Street.

It doesn't really matter if the DEI department is gutted or not at these companies. After the last decade of cultural revolution, The employees themselves are true believers now, they don't need a DEI commissar looking over their shoulder making sure they're “on the right side of history”. Those that disagree have already been filtered out over the last decade especially in leadership positions and anyone that remains is smart enough to read the room and keep quiet to keep their jobs.

This is based off my experience in a popular tech/entertainment company.

I think it is DEI causing a lot of these issues because of the social engineering aspect. It's not that they think they know better what people want, it's that they are trying to dictate to people what they should want.

The capitalism and the woke combine, which makes all their search and image prompt answers prescriptive rather than responsive. 'You want this? You shouldn't, so we'll give you things we think you should want instead. And since we're not just doing the job at hand, we'll make money off of what we tell you to look at rather than what you want to look at.'

Search and AI images are the same thing, someone saying, 'I want to see this' and the software responding. It's DEI not because they're trying to make a profit, but because their attempts to influence user behaviour aren't just to try and get us to want what makes them money.

Point of privilege

Can you write your comment in Comic Sans? Due to a disability it is difficult for me to read comments not made in Comic Sans.

Thank you, Comrade

Feel like Google was making good money before they went and fricked up all their shit though...

bing looks literally the exact same as good idk what you're talking about lol

The problem is that most people don't look beyond Apple or Samsung, especially on the US market. Instead of trying to make a better/equally good but cheaper phone, companies are trying to carve a niche, but it's not working all that well - Sony or Google just can't offer anything compelling. Only tiny portions of the market care about dumb niche features.

Just look at this shit, beyond the first three brands it's dire, even the chinkshit like Oppo, Vivo, Huawei or Realme are carried heavily by asian nations, where they're marketed a lot and mostly sell cheaper phones resulting in lower ASP and profits.