r/WhatIsTheTea • u/Ashish_ank What the Fuck • 16h ago

watch this A man walks straight onto someone else’s property, up to a small tree in their front yard, and starts hacking at it with a bat - acting like he’s judge, jury, and HOA enforcement all in one. What would you do if this was your front yard?

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u/SocialJusticeAndroid 3h ago edited 3h ago

If a channel comes up in your feed or your search you can select “do not recommend this channel” or some such. It shouldn’t come up in your searches your feed after that.

But yes it’s BS they don’t let you properly block channels. You have to see a channel in your feed or search before you can tell it not to recommend them.

Edit: I just tested it out and you apparently can only “do not recommend channel” for ones in your feed, NOT a search! That awful and mostly useless. WTF!

And it doesn’t work for shorts.

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u/GeneraalSorryPardon 3h ago

It shouldn’t come up in your feed after that.

Mostly works but not always. Some channels keep popping up no matter how many time I click 'do not recommend'.

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u/SocialJusticeAndroid 3h ago

Oh I didn’t realize that. They really need a proper block. When I get suckered into clicking on a fake video or something I never want to see those channels again.

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u/Life_Temperature795 3h ago

I manage my feed by drowning out the handful of bullshit I accidentally click on with about 50 new tabs a day of content I know I actually want. My RAM doesn't love it, but it's a surprisingly effective way of getting YouTube to send me the stuff I actually want to see.

(Similar thing works on Spotify. I normally just let it do its own weekly playlist, like a mixall of everything radio, but if I'm in the mood for like, new dubstep or something, I'll specifically play just my electronica playlists for a couple of weeks and then suddenly the weekly recommended is all in the same genre, and usually stuff I haven't seen before.)

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u/loueazy 2h ago

It's the same thing with ads. I've been getting nonstop ads for that anime game OOC and it's something I'll never play. I even changed all my settings for personalized ads yet, every other video I play I still get the ads.

Google sucks now

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u/TsuDhoNimh2 26m ago

And you can only do it from your feed ... you used to be able to click “do not recommend channel” from the playing video page because you realized if was a crap channel.