Can you post the resulting url here? Someone may try following it.
Please note that a link may(?) encode info you may not want to share, so maybe remove long parts from it. Section selectors are usually short: tbm=isch, tbm=shop, etc.
Here is a google search for Hacker News after I clicked on the "Forums" tab. I was sure to use the same google account that is associated with HN, and little else. I appreciate the heads up on that though. People should know these things. BTW, this was Mullvad into Prague.
Yes, when I follow it, it now shows the "Forums" section, and it stays there if I switch to e.g. All or Web from there. It's likely encoded somewhere in the long "fbs" parameter, cause it disappears once I remove it.
But you can search forums with just udm=18. E.g. https://google.com/search?q=Foo&udm=18 -- this means you can create a custom "search with >" item for it.
I wouldn't mind if it didn't keep recommending me videos I've already watched (they're showing the red bar! they know I've watched it!) or from channels I've already said no to or on topics I've frequently said no to or on topics that I watched one video on[1] and now YouTube thinks I want a full page of similar videos.
The algorithm is, for want of some better words, absolute cack.
[1] Even if I don't finish the video or say I don't like it or say "don't recommend channel", FFHS
The (dis)like buttons are now completely pointless on Youtube, since they removed dislikes when people disliked the wrong things and made Susan (RIP) sad.
It feels like the Youtube algorithm is on drugs now. I get a lot of uninteresting recommendations of videos with no views from channels with no subscribers. A lot of recommendations of things I've already watched recently. A lot of recommendations of stuff that's extremely old (a lot of which I've already watched).
And these recommendations persist for ages. Somehow it must know after a while, after presenting me the same video 50 times that I'm not going to watch it. It's so tiresome. And god help me if I watch a few cat videos. My recs are going to be full of cats for weeks. I feel like I have to watch cat videos in incognito.
Lol, I know the pain (who doesn’t). Disliking and removing from history works for me, at least in the short term. I put history right on the sidebar with unhook extension, I believe. Sometimes I clear whole pages from there to avoid spam.
What to do with videos I don’t want to dislike, idk. It keeps recommending watch-once-already-watched videos indefinitely.
Or your in-laws watch your Netflix over their holiday visit. Now I can't tell if Netflix has generally worse quality content these days or if it's just recommending garbage to me based on what people have watched on my profile.
Netflix simply attempting to provide somewhat relevant recommendations was a massive data crunching effort years ago, and even that was "only" the official movies and television of humanity. Data take from a previous post I made 9 months ago [1] and from this article [2] and this paper on Youtube data statistics [3].
Almost all my recommended videos have tens of thousands of views or more. I don't know for sure if the algorithm usually ignores 97% of videos, but it might as well be doing that. Doing that vastly reduces the number of options and means you have lots and lots of data for each video.
Underrated reason for tiktok's success: shorter videos lend themselves way better to recommendation algorithms, because you have better data about what users want to see
It can't be that hard, once you develop a profile for a user, you just need to classify the incoming videos and cross reference their profile against the classifications.
Turn off watch history in your google settings. Then remove all your favorites. (save them to a playlist first to keep them) This forces the algorithm to only consider what other people who have watched the video you have open are watching when building suggestions, and this makes the suggestions dramatically better.
I think it's just pretty hard to recommend things outside of what they know you like.
You can log off and look at what's popular on your country's front page. I get a couple popular music videos, clash of clans, soccer, and a whole lot of clickbait/prank/you won't believe this/pikachu face thumbnail videos.
I seen multiple creators performing A/B tests on clickbait titles/thumbnails/pokatchu faces and everywhere conclusion was the same: it's so effective for their bottom line that even when they are not comfortable with it, they cannot afford to not do it.
It wasn’t hard 10-15 years ago when it was at its peak. I suspect all it did was relaxing walk rules and simply presenting more diverse selection, which optimizes for surfing but deoptimizes for some modal group.
I also remember right-bar surfing techniques that don’t work anymore.
Part of it is also the creators optimizing for what the suggestion algorithm rewards. If you don't like the front page, you're looking for a needle in a haystack, because creators are rewarded very heavily for making the kind of content that lands on the front page and gets mass amounts of views.
Youtube doesn't have much of an incentive to show things that are not either popular in general, or that already worked on you in the past. There are some people that care strongly about that (me included), but it's a very small minority.
If the A/B test says distilled garbage is what hijacks the dopamine center the best, then you will be fed the A/B juice. And on average, people in your cohort will like it.
At the top of the homepage there's a menu bar with categories, if you scroll all the way to try right of that there's a "new to you" option. Try it out :)
Sure. Note that it does some hqdefault vs maxresdefault loading logic for yt, which you can rip away if not needed and make it a little smaller. Also splits images into two sections, 1st all >= HD-sized pics, 2nd the rest. It still doesn't analyze css bg urls, I'm too lazy for walking the stylesheets. Click again to hide it. Images must be initially on-screen, so scroll the site down if it lazy loads them.
Bonus for fellow scraper: AHK script for saving images. Hover over an image in the grid and press alt-shift-s. It will rclick, type i, s, enter etc. I bound it to my mouse side button to save images under cursor without going through menus.
; Alt-Shift-s (&image -> &save image)
!+s::
Click, right
Sleep, 350
Send, i
Sleep, 100
Send, s
WinWaitActive, Save As,, 5
if ErrorLevel
{
SoundBeep, 150, 300
return
}
Sleep, 100
Send, {Enter}
return
It feels like GIMP was designed with user-hostility in mind. There’s no Paint.net for Linux, so I have to use GIMP from time to time for my gui server job needs. And gosh, I hate the damn thing. Every simple step in it is as hard as you can’t bear.
(No I can’t use Krita for specific reasons and it isn’t much easier anyway)
I always thought this, but used it for a while for work and found it was actually quicker work-flow-wise than Photoshop (though Photoshop was better for photo editing) or Krita (and krita is way better for painting).
It was like, hidden underneath the janky gui, there was actually a lot of thought put into how things work together.
I’ve heard about a local packaging factory recently that uses an ML-first system for messaging their clients about what they will need to order soon, based on recent orders and global criteria. It’s not a simple problem, apparently. They signal the clients and start pre-producing, basically sort of algotrading themselves.
Not really an industrial control though, but close to it.
Why is game development fun? I mean not that it can’t be, but why it specifically. Past some experience that OP definitely is, there’s fun in much more areas and in programming in general (I say much more, but gamedev may not even be included into the set). Personally, a game is probably the last thing I’d program if given lots of free time and a PC.
Edit: I realize it’s an example, just babbling here
StyleBot to remove/fix bad styles on sites. I know uBO can add style one-liners, but prefer full control.
For example, I set my own youtube column count, remove ellipses from titles and make the cards less badly designed in general.
There’s around 30 sites in my list.
Bitwarden for passwords.
DarkReader for text contrast. I keep it on even for dark mode sites, because most dark mode sites get done by/for wannabe hackers and are not much easier on eyes than their light versions. DarkReader creates its own colorscheme based on a site’s theme and allows you to control global brightness, contrast and saturation of this conversion.
I think it should be built into every browser (and platform) and in-site dark modes should be deprecated.
Please note that a link may(?) encode info you may not want to share, so maybe remove long parts from it. Section selectors are usually short: tbm=isch, tbm=shop, etc.
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