Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically?
Recommendation system is long time broken. I am subscribed to 100+ channels and check 10 channels on a weekly basis, meaning I watch all the new videos these creators make. So that means I want the new stuff from the frequented ones on my front page ASAP. Yet, it's a hit and miss. From the remaining 90 channels I never get anything recommended. Why?<p>If I subscribe to a new channel it gets recommended like hell, then it forgets about it.<p>BUT! Totally irrelevant things that I never watch, is kept on my front page for weeks. Like it wants me to check it or wants me to mute it, but fuck them I'm not giving them any more metrics. If I clear the fingerprints and block the acquiring of these metrics the front page gets filled with new, interesting content. Who the hell understands this? I have also observed that if you have an adblocker enabled it gives you trash all the time.<p>When the absolutely disgusting, braindead, bottomfeeding  "depp vs amber" nightmare was ongoing I had to "mute" the same channels multiple times and then 55 others, because it just slams it into my face. Watch it, watch it, you must see this muck.<p>The topic of my fav channels represent... I get nothing relevant from them. :DDD<p>The shorts... was the pinnacle of YTs innovation. :DDDD<p>Goog is all about control now. Look innovation for somewhere else... well... if you can find any, lemme know........<p>You can't do shit with godzilla and now he does whatever he wants.