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Anyone else frustrated by cross contamination from Youtube, Youtube Music and Youtube shorts? (self.technology)

submitted 1 year ago by greenskye to c/technology

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These are all products that I legitimately like and want to engage with, but linking them all to a single account and more importantly a shared recommendation engine feels very flawed.

My music playlists from Youtube Music keep showing up on my Youtube homepage. Likewise, engaging with Youtube Shorts (especially subscribing) also subscribes to their youtube channel. I don't know about anyone else, but what I find interesting in a 30 second video is not what I find interesting in a 10-30 minute video.

I feel like Google would be better served separating these recommendation engines. Even looking at this from a monetization lens, it feels inefficient. How do you guys feel? If you have any hacks or recommendations I'd love to hear them. I'm personally ready to create a TikTok account just to avoid contaminating my youtube feed.

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[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I really really liked Google play music. When they killed it I tried YouTube music, liked a few artists, then went to my normal YouTube subscriptions saw it was flooded by dumps from those artists and unsubbed and never looked back.

Spotify isn't nearly as good as gpm but ytm is a non starter for me for exactly this reason.

YouTube doesn't care though, they very much want everyone to stop using subscriptions it seems.

[–] AndrewMettier@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@saigot @greenskye oh man I used to use Google Play Music ALL the time back when I was a kid. That was my go to and back when I used to use Android my way of pirating and getting free music is that I would download/screen record all of the music videos from YouTube and convert them to mp3 files and they would show up. Those were the days. Nothing else is as good or convenient, also google play musics song recognition was better than Shazam. I miss it :(

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Google random song generator is the best song suggester I've ever used. Spotify's new dj thing is starting to get close but it's radio was super far off what gpm had. I also like gpm because it was really good for obscure small bands.

Out if all the dead Google products the two that really left me sad was gpm and inbox.

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 1 points 1 year ago

GPM was the best. If they didn't have what you wanted you could always upload it yourself. Reminds me of the Grooveshark days.