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Exactly, this article was born when I searched for one video about dumbell exercising and clicked one single video, since then I have clicked more than 50 "I'm not interested" and "Don't recommend from this channel" but YouTube still recommends a lot of exercising videos despite only have seen a single one, the tastes extrapolation YT does is just plain ridiculous and if this is the best "machine learning" at google can do its extremely disappointing.

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Years ago I once watched 7 minutes of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow on Netflix.

The last time I had Netflix it was still telling me that because I watched Sky Captain, it is recommending a bunch of stuff (that is similar to Sky Captain).

All I can think is, how about we pretend that never happened?

So, this isn't a problem unique to YouTube. This is a problem everywhere the computers are left to make recommendations for me.

I disagree, like many here I'm a programmer and is not that hard to fix this issue so I don't think computers here are to blame, is just managers making really bad choices about how recommendations should work.

Indeed, which is why did not blame the computers. I blamed the people who put them in charge. So, there isn't any disagreement here.

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