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I am personally abusing the block feature for this. I haven't tested if it is actually true, but I began blocking channels that I am not interested in and haven't noticed anything being recommended yet from any channel I remember blocking.

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Is this abusing the function? Block is for things that you never want to see. It sounds fairly appropriate.

That sounds like it could work. Pretty sure I never saw that function on my Android TV tho.

Kudos, gonna try!

I spend time blocking/curating videos in a desktop browser so that my Apple TV YouTube app sucks less from a recommendations perspective..

It's lame that it has to be done that way, but it's the best way I've been able to do it.

> It's lame that it has to be done that way, but it's the best way I've been able to do it.

How else do you think they can figure out what you hate vs you don't like but don't hate either ?

Oh yeah I get that part.. what I mean is that it's lame that I have to sit at my desktop computer in a browser and do this manual work just so my Apple TV experience - which is where I primarily consume YouTube - doesn't give me garbage recommendations.

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