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There's something that's been really bugging me about YouTube's search algorithm.

I often use YouTube to look for music tracks, and after some time, I noticed that there's an inordinately large amount of reaction channels appearing in the "People Also Watched" window as well as appearing on the top of the search results every time I try to search for almost any song.

I even tried nuking my entire search/watch history, and while it worked for some time, those stupid reaction videos just eventually keep coming back to the top of my search lists!

It got so annoying that I eventually tried experimenting using incognito windows to check if the algorithm still applies if you're logged out, and as it turns out, the algorithm turns back to normal if you're not logged in.

Can anyone explain what's going on here? I have never ever clicked on music reaction videos, and yet they appear to get recommended to me almost all the time.

because the algorithm is a broken mess that needs to be completely redone from scratch
it won't happen since the yt people are parasites

There's a big enough overlap between people who watch music videos and people who watch reactions to music videos that the algorithm will keep recommending them to you. If you can keep hitting "don't recommend channel" each time they pop up that might filter most of them out.

Here's the kicker, though: since I actually go out of my way to avoid clicking them, they don't appear on my homepage's recommendation list so I can't scratch out the channels that keep appearing in the search results' top pages themselves by using the "Don't Recommend" feature, unless they somehow start appearing on a video recommendation list

try use some blockers for youtube. They try to get as much money as they can from advertisements so dont be surprised they are pushing these as well.

Alright, what do you suggest?

Ublock origin 8 and AdBlock. work great on youtube and this site as well

Already have those two installed and my search pages are still infested with people making exaggerated facial expressions

Those two block ads like a charm, but not unwanted videos unfortunately