A-fucking-men. YouTube's recommendations are effectively worthless to me because they're full of garbage I'll never watch instead of videos actually relevant to the one I'm watching (no, YouTube, just because I watched an antivax conspiracy video because it was linked on reddit and I want to laugh at it doesn't mean it's something I want to watch every day after watching entirely-unrelated things).
On another note:
"But everyone sucks, except Pandora."
No, they suck, too. Thumb-up one song and it'll commandeer the station. Half the songs are live recordings (and I haven't checked if they finally added the option to exclude them, but given that it hadn't been added many years after the original feature suggestion by the time I switched to Spotify, I don't have high hopes); thumbing down said live recordings doesn't actually stop them from showing up (in fact, my "fuck this, I'm switching to Spotify" moment was when Pandora queued up three live recordings in a row, all of which I thumbed down, then on the fourth in a row wouldn't let me thumb it down because I had too many "skips" today).
Fuck Pandora. Spotify's radio feature is just as good (which ain't saying much, but it doesn't bombard me with live recordings, so that's a start), and of course Spotify supports use-cases besides procedurally-generated radio stations. Way more useful.
I've used Pandora for nearly a decade. For half of that time, I've also kept a subscription to an on-demand music streaming service. But I always kept using Pandora for the auto-stations.
On another note:
"But everyone sucks, except Pandora."
No, they suck, too. Thumb-up one song and it'll commandeer the station. Half the songs are live recordings (and I haven't checked if they finally added the option to exclude them, but given that it hadn't been added many years after the original feature suggestion by the time I switched to Spotify, I don't have high hopes); thumbing down said live recordings doesn't actually stop them from showing up (in fact, my "fuck this, I'm switching to Spotify" moment was when Pandora queued up three live recordings in a row, all of which I thumbed down, then on the fourth in a row wouldn't let me thumb it down because I had too many "skips" today).
Fuck Pandora. Spotify's radio feature is just as good (which ain't saying much, but it doesn't bombard me with live recordings, so that's a start), and of course Spotify supports use-cases besides procedurally-generated radio stations. Way more useful.