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I really wish there was a way to exclude certain videos from their feed recommendation engine. Or at least put them in a different category. If someone sends me a particularly funny cat video, because it is their cat, I really don't want to get a deluge of cat videos. Also, if you are playing videos for your 2-year-old, those shouldn't influence the playlists that come up when you are driving to work (the Gummy Bears videos keep popping up in my 80's playlists).

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You can click on three dots and select "Not interested". This works for videos, playlists and topics in your feed.

I have done that countless of times and I still get The John Oliver Show queued up after the most unrelated videos like videos about retro computing etc.

Except that I am interested, if I happen to be playing videos for the kid. I could create another account, but I'm not sure how to tie additional youtube accounts to the youtube red service. And I'd have to remember to switch accounts before playing videos for him (they should introduce "listening profiles", and have the ability to move certain instances of watching a video to a specific profile).

I do that by right clicking a video -> open in private window.

Works wonders for click baity videos that you're likely to regret if it affected recomendations.

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