These are all products that I legitimately like and want to engage with, but linking them all to a single account and more importantly a shared recommendation engine feels very flawed.

My music playlists from Youtube Music keep showing up on my Youtube homepage. Likewise, engaging with Youtube Shorts (especially subscribing) also subscribes to their youtube channel. I don’t know about anyone else, but what I find interesting in a 30 second video is not what I find interesting in a 10-30 minute video.

I feel like Google would be better served separating these recommendation engines. Even looking at this from a monetization lens, it feels inefficient. How do you guys feel? If you have any hacks or recommendations I’d love to hear them. I’m personally ready to create a TikTok account just to avoid contaminating my youtube feed.

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    Personally I like the YT/YTMusic cross. I listen to the same music in the car or at work that I do at home in YT fairly often. I just hate shorts and wish they’d get the fuck off my homepage. That “hide for 30 days” button is so aggravating.

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      1 year ago

      uBlock Origin doesn’t have a 30 day limit:

      www.youtube.com###title-text:has-text(Shorts):nth-ancestor(7)
      
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      I actually Really like the crossover. I love mashup music and tons of it is only on places line YouTube and other “less official”/record company controlled places.

      So YouTube music being able to integrate those sources is 10/10 for me.

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      I’m fine with music content in Youtube recommendations, but videos in Music recommendations is absolute cancer.

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        Honestly I’ve used both every day since Google Play Music shut down and I can’t say I’ve ever had video stuff come up on YT Music.