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0 pointsskybrian4y ago0 comments

I guess that means you've learned to care a lot about YouTube's recommendations? Another approach is to ignore them.

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That's what I personally do, I treat the side-bar as basically an ad-bar and my peripheral view just ignores it.

It wasn't always like this, about 7-8 years ago I used to discover lots of interesting music after watching some indie music video, but not anymore, at some point their algorithm just broke (it looks like it's searching for a local maximum and once it finds it it gets stuck in there, as someone else mentioned above).

JohnFen4y ago

> I treat the side-bar as basically an ad-bar and my peripheral view just ignores it.

I just now realized that I do this too. So much that I've never actually paid any attention to the contents of the sidebar at all. My brain just automatically filters it out.

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paganel4y ago

That's what I personally do, I treat the side-bar as basically an ad-bar and my peripheral view just ignores it.

JohnFen4y ago

> I treat the side-bar as basically an ad-bar and my peripheral view just ignores it.

I just now realized that I do this too. So much that I've never actually paid any attention to the contents of the sidebar at all. My brain just automatically filters it out.

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