Is there a way to filter youtube recommendations by keywords?

[skykiii]

Just wondering.

For example, youtube likes to recommend me "Steamed Hams" videos a lot even though I have literally never watched one and consistently click "Not Interested." Since they're not all by the same channel, "Don't Recommend Channel" won't fix the problem by itself.

If I could somehow tell Youtube to not recommend me any video that has "Steamed Hams" in the title, that would be fine.

Anyone know a way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

 

[herefortheactualthreads]

there was an extension which name i forgot, it could let you block complete channels you disliked and fame-whoring channels as well. not sure about specific tags tho.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

A keyword blocker? At this time of year, in this part of the internet, localized entirely within Youtube!?

 

[Meth Dick]

Suffer like the rest of us.
Through basically all of fucking June I was forced to see Youtube highlighting the fucking NBA finals, every video I'd click "not interested" yet lo and behold next time I went to the home page? More fucking basketball nogs.

 

[We Are The Witches]

I am not sure if this works, but putting the minus sign and then the term may affect it. It won't be applied if you add a term that is included in the title, despite having it after the minus sign though.

Like for example, if you put:
skinner and chalmers -steamed

Then the result will exclude videos with titles having "steamed" in it, but if you put:
skinner and chalmers -steamed hams
Then it will be negated, "hams" (positive) takes precedence over "-steamed" (negative). [I am not sure of this one at all, would need to test it further]

Put:
skinner and chalmers -steamed -hams
And see the results, now try:
skinner and chalmers -steamed -hams -simpsons
And you should see a very different results, since you're negating "simpsons" too.

* Note: I have not messed with this enough, so I don't have the specifics of how it works at a detailed level/what are the exceptions/which are priorities/etc.

 

[MrTroll]

No, but it seems like eventually it will 'forget' a keyword if you don't watch or search for any related videos for a while. I am autistically careful about what I view on youtube without being in an incognito window. I also never use youtube while signed in so that I can just reset everything and start over by deleting cookies.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Sounds like a feature that might be useful so of course YouTube won't have it. I don't think you can even see keywords on a video any more.

And for what it's worth, YouTube keeps trying to push Discourse Tranny Discourse Minis whenever I watch anything remotely tabletop related. I also get random black people react/influencer types in searches. As in, barely related to what I'm searching for, if it's related at all. It does make me wonder if these are being pushed by YouTube, or it's just the bad algorithm fucking up and I'm noticing the tranny/black people mugging the camera.

 

[moocow]

there was an extension which name i forgot, it could let you block complete channels you disliked and fame-whoring channels as well. not sure about specific tags tho.

That's Channel Blocker, which I use religiously and consider a must-have for Youtube interaction. It does the hiding/blacklisting on the client side, so Youtube still thinks it's serving up those thumbnails and search results.

But it's still pretty neat to go searching for something like "airport freakout" and just watch the search results page start erasing most of the returned results, auto-loading more, erasing most of those, auto-loading yet more, etc. It's like you can hear you computer whispering in your ear, "hey let me clean this shit up for you, friend."

I recommend blocking all "local news" channels. I'm not even kidding. There's fucking hundreds (if not thousands) of them, and they infest search results. Just blocking those will substantially improve your Youtube experience. Blocking reaction channels is another good one. You can always temporarily pause Channel Blocker so it's not like you can't go back and view the original search results if you need to.