No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me
I don't personally think the dislike button is the explanation. But something seems to have changed in the Youtube recommendations algo in the last few weeks.<p>In my experience, the algo has gotten very noticeably worse recently:<p>- Recommending lots of 6 - 12 year old videos on topics I'm interested in (who cares about a 12 year old product review?)<p>- Recommending tons of videos I've already seen or recommending really, really old videos from people I normally watch. It's always done this, but it seems worse recently.<p>- Trying to push "streamer bro" meme videos on me, which seem aimed at 12 year old kids<p>- The algo seems to be really clinging to recommending only videos about the last few topics I searched and totally forgetting my main interests. Look up a video on a new car you just bought? Congratulations, Youtube will now recommend you every video ever produced about that car forever to the exclusion of whatever it is you are actually interested in even if you have never shown an interest in cars.<p>Maybe someone who works at Youtube knows if a new recommendation system was pushed out recently or something? It's miserable.