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Comment by JLCarveth | Hacker News Reader

Then stop engaging with the content, and when it does show up use the "Not Interested" feature. You have control over the content you're shown.

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I'd be surprised if you found anyone agreeing with your statement.

You absolutely do not have control over the content you're shown. Why would they give you that power?

> YouTube’s ‘dislike’ and ‘not interested’ buttons barely work, study finds.

> A Mozilla report found feedback buttons didn’t stop the majority of similar recommendations

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/20/23356434/youtube-dislike-...

"TheVerge" is not what I would consider a reliable source. Perhaps you could've linked the study they referenced instead?

They have made mistakes [1], but I don't see why they are to be considered as not reliable till the end of time.

Here's a direct link to the Mozilla study: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-investigation...

[1] See the correction in https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/19/23880111/microsoft-xbox-s...

> YouTube’s ‘dislike’ and ‘not interested’ buttons barely work, study finds.

Well, they work great for skipping ads..

I got rate-limited doing this. "Try again later" every time I clicked on "Not interested".

Reporting obvious scam ads also ends up not being against policy everywhere.

This was effective for me around a decade ago. These days it feels like most algorithmic content generation sites don't care when you express negative interest in something.

That's not true. My only Instagram engagement is blocking obvious scam content should I accidently open the app and it still shoes me nothing else but that.

"my only engagement..." Of course instagram will show you the only content you engage with. Is that really surprising?

Does blocking content actually count as positive engagement? I am not sure that's a good Strategie

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