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Youtube's recommendations are weird.

, 18th January 2013 at 12:10 PM (182 Views)

Especially when it starts popping stuff completely unrelated to your watched videos and may even despise. Or just watch a video once, and suddenly you get a whole bunch of them related. e.g. those are the moments when you go and clear out the Youtube cookies, because fuck that shit.

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Beck - 18th January 2013 01:14 PM
Yup.
SnorlaxMonster - 18th January 2013 01:37 PM
If I watch a video I don't like, I often delete it from my history so YouTube doesn't think I like that kind of video.
Robin Storm - 18th January 2013 03:18 PM
That kittie is so cute!
$aturn¥oshi - 18th January 2013 08:02 PM
Generally no matter what I'm watching, I usually get Doctor Who or Mortal Kombat recommendations.
System Error - 18th January 2013 10:49 PM
@SnorlaxMonster; - There's a special part of your Youtube cookies that stores your most recently watched videos. Deleting something from your history won't have an effect if it's in there. By the same token, just by deleting that cookie, you can have a million Youtube vids in your browser's history, and you'll still get a fresh list of recommendations
SnorlaxMonster - 18th January 2013 10:56 PM
Originally Posted by System Error

@SnorlaxMonster; - There's a special part of your Youtube cookies that stores your most recently watched videos. Deleting something from your history won't have an effect if it's in there. By the same token, just by deleting that cookie, you can have a million Youtube vids in your browser's history, and you'll still get a fresh list of recommendations

Not my browser history, my YouTube history; the history that YouTube itself stores. Deleting those does work.