YouTube uses new "feedback polls" to improve recommended videos

[Anthony10]

Now I'm not sure if this is good enough for tech news, if it is a repost, ect.

 

I use youtube all the time, and I just noticed today on the default page (What to watch) it is now giving you questions like for example, "Do you like the band Rise Against?" Yes or No. And then it uses that to help generate videos that you might like on the what to watch.

 

Good job youtube and sorry if this shouldnt be in this section or if it is a repost and that there is no article.

[Sidiox]

Do you maybe have a screen shot of that stuff? Because I've refreshed a few times now and I haven't gotten any questions like that yet.

it's an interesting idea though, currently most of the stuff on my What to Watch page is just crap that I either have already watched or don't want to watch.

[Anthony10]

Do you maybe have a screen shot of that stuff? Because I've refreshed a few times now and I haven't gotten any questions like that yet.

it's an interesting idea though, currently most of the stuff on my What to Watch page is just crap that I either have already watched or don't want to watch.

If it happens again I'll screenshot and post, so far I have gotten 3:

"Do you like Corsair Memory?"

"Do you like the band Rise Against?"

"Do you like Minecraft?"

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

My father Browses some times on my PC and they always recommend me " Best News Bloopers" and "Banned Condom Commercials" although i have safety enabled, so, imagine what he has to say .

[Anthony10]

My father Browses some times on my PC and they always recommend me " Best News Bloopers" and "Banned Condom Commercials" although i have safety enabled, so, imagine what he has to say .

You should probably unsubscribe to distractify or amazinglife247

[Applepienation]

I feel like this is going to end badly.

 

It might seem good for now, but I have a bad feeling about it.

[StingBull]

I don't have that. I only have the standard "Hey we thought you might like this *some shit channel* " recommendations.

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

You should probably unsubscribe to distractify or amazinglife247

that's the problem, i'm not even sub into any of the channels that show that content and they keep recommending it

[LOLPhilips]

Haven't seen something like this before.

But I ignore recommended videos completely anyway.

[Misanthrope]

Meh, it's nice for them to ask but I still manually remove things from my view history if I click on a video I didn't like or watch something that recommends too much of the same i.e. if you try to watch a Megadeth video youtube immediately goes bonkers and start recommending tons and tons of Megadeth videos, usually of newer crap I have no interest in, along with Metallica stuff. So whenever I want to watch the wake up dead video I manually remove it from my watched history.