YouTube will now let you block recommendations from specific channels

Most people who regularly use YouTube would probably admit that the site's recommendation engine is a little wonky. For every time it shows you something you might genuinely want to see, it brings you something random at best and reprehensible at worst.

While it might take years for YouTube to fix all of its problems, it's making one change to hopefully make the site better for its users. YouTube outlined a handful of new features that are coming soon to its website and mobile apps on the YouTube blog on Wednesday, including the ability to never see recommendations from specific channels.

That's only one of the recommendation changes YouTube showed off in the blog post, but it might be the biggest one. Everyone has that one channel they absolutely hate seeing in the "Up Next" column next to videos they watch. Now, they can easily do something about that. Read more...