Which service specifically are you referring to? YT's search function has been constantly degrading over the years and spews out more unrelated bullshit than ever. And their algorithms are the worst and most moronic thing ever, and also somehow got worse over the years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Hidden in the google account settings, you can find what googles algorithm thinks you like and remove inaccurate things

As far as i know, you cant add things

This is the only algorithm i know that you can kinda customize

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That's just your history of what you watched, liked, disliked, etc. The problem is that the system behind it is inherently stupid. You liked Vintage Story? Here's some Minecraft! And since they're games, you likely also like OTHER GAMES! Right? So here's some Roblox and Fortnite! Our trends say those are super popular with the cool guys and you surely are a cool guy too, right?! And with that comes all the clickbait bullshit too, so I say I'm not interested in those channels and block them, so YT now thinks I dislike gaming and scrubs everything again, until I manually search & watch another video of a game because obviously it also scrubbed the ones I'm interested in. Or you watched some music videos, REPEATEDLY? Here's all the videos you previous have watched! Now you have to click, not interested, click for why, click you have watched it already, click okay. Repeat for every video you ever watched until YT gets the hint, for at least a day or two until it repeats the stupidity again.

You literally have to fight the system constantly. It's why I don't watch YT much anymore, or use private tabs now, which bring their own issue now that they also frequently block VPN IPs and ask you to log in, but that would then again muddle my watch history and consequently spam my feed with all sorts of irrelevant shit that I don't want.

The only thing that got better over the years is the video quality, like from an encoding standpoint, the content quality went way down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

As far as i know, that is for the ad algorithm, not for youtube

I dont understand why you cant choose what things you want to be recommended to you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I'm asking myself this question for many years. Especially since YT videos are categorized to a degree. Give users control over keywords, both to like more of them, and to filter certain ones out. Obviously not perfect either because not everything is going to be properly categorized & tagged, but it would be so much better than the current mess where some brain dead algorithm tries to figure out what I like.