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[BUG]: 'Don't recommend channel' has disappeared from context menu
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Affected version
Changelog 27.96
Device Type
Smart TV/Box
Affected Android
Shield Android TV v11
Steps to reproduce the bug
Long press on video... Look for 'Don't recommend channel'... [No longer appearing]
Actual behavior
Feature seems to have been removed.
Additional information
Device is Nvidia shield P2997 v11 Feature has been available for a long time but now absent.
Same. Just came here to open an issue for this.
Not only does it not show after long press on video, it is no longer in the Context Menu Option in Settings
Android TV V27.92
Please bring back the 'Don't recommend This Channel' option back to the 'Context Menu'
Same here. Just happened within the last 2 days. "Don't recommend this channel" is no longer available. Please fix!
Yep, this really useful feature has disappeared on latest update. Would be nice to have it back.
Did it actually work? I picked that a few times and still got the channel recommended, albeit days later.
The last update corrected this and the feature is back again.
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Did it actually work? I picked that a few times and still got the channel recommended, albeit days later.
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The last update corrected this and the feature is back again.
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I was still not seeing it and it said I was on the latest, so I deleted all data and cache for the app and signed in again. Its back. Thank you.
It’s not back on my V27.99… even after deleting data and re-login. Still missing from Context Menu as an option.
Not fixed AFAIK
I've updated today and it's been restored. Working fine.
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It’s not back on my V27.99… even after deleting data and re-login. Still missing from Context Menu as an option.
Not fixed AFAIK
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Yeah updating didn't help either, but only 1 account was affected. The main account we use doesn't have the feature but the secondary one never had the issue.
I've been running 27.99 for over a week now, and until today "Don't recommend channel" wasn't appearing in the context menu for videos in Home. As of today, however, it has reappeared.
There was no action on my part (no cache clearing, updating, not even rebooting my Chromecast) to explain the reappearance, so I wonder if YouTube is doing some A/B testing that might explain the differing results people are seeing. 🤔
I've been running 27.99 for over a week now, and until today "Don't recommend channel" wasn't appearing in the context menu for videos in Home. As of today, however, it has reappeared.
There was no action on my part (no cache clearing, updating, not even rebooting my Chromecast) to explain the reappearance, so I wonder if YouTube is doing some A/B testing that might explain the differing results people are seeing. 🤔
same for me, could be that YT is messing with own code and SmartTube passing the function to YT did not work until today.
I just switched to beta version and it had the setting. Yesterday it appeared in the main one without update or anything.
I haven't change or updated smarttube versions recently.. but same thing for me. Suddenly Don't Recommend is showing in the Context Menu again. Oddly, it still is not an option when setting up Context Menu in Settings, it is not there to even turn on/off. I thought it used to be there, but i'm not actually sure at this point.
Same here. Verified it's not in settings to enable/disable. Both stable and beta (Android TV) are missing the option. Standard official YT app still shows it. No updates available, none installed for easily a week, at least. Literally just used the option yesterday, but I woke up this morning and now it's gone. It's clearly a server side issue, not a user fixable one.
This isn't a new issue. There are MANY tickets for this, none have ever been closed or responded to, the issue has never been officially addressed, and it KEEPS HAPPENING!!!!
FIX THE DAMN ISSUE ONCE AND FOR ALL ALREADY!!!!!! If you can't get the context menu right, leave it the hell alone!
Also missing from the Smart Tube app on my phone but not the official YT phone app
It was back to it showing on both of my linked accounts, but yesterday it disappeared again on both. I guess it’s possible that it might be because of changes to YouTube side but checking on the YouTube app shows the option is still available on both accounts. Also, I still don’t understand why it’s not available in the smart tube context menu options.
Hope this gets fixed soon. It’s a pain.
It was back to it showing on both of my linked accounts, but yesterday it disappeared again on both. I guess it’s possible that it might be because of changes to YouTube side but checking on the YouTube app shows the option is still available on both accounts. Also, I still don’t understand why it’s not available in the smart tube context menu options.
Hope this gets fixed soon. It’s a pain.
It's clearly not YouTube when only Smart Tube is missing the option and not the official YT app.
....and now the ST beta ATV app has the option again, but not the stable version. I didn't even exit the app,let alone FC or anything....tell me this isn't ST server-side😒
It's back, the stable update works!!! I checked around a half hour ago before the update hit me and it was missing. Checked again after updating and it's working again.
Thank you!!!! 😊
Yes it’s back, what a relief and properly in the context menu settings.
Now if I only felt that YouTube respected the Don’t Recommend… 😂
It really does seem like whatever change made it go away was something server-side, which means big G was poking around with the do not recommend feature in some way. Hopefully that means they were doing some patches to make it work a little more reliably. It is a pretty big complaint with a lot of people, not just ST users. So they have to know about it being a problem.
I still have this issue on latest stable... Specifically for me the bug occurs on A) all videos I've clicked on and B) SOME videos I haven't clicked on. This makes it basically fucking gone though. I can't determine if I don't want to recommend a channel until I've watched at least 5-10 seconds of the video...
Edit: for anyone having this issue, removing the don't recommend channel and not interested buttons from the context menu and readding them MAY have worked, but I can't tell. The issue was I'm getting a reduced context menu without those options. I'm not sure if what actually fixed it temporarily was just refreshing the recommended page or what I did, but I do keep the app open for very long periods of time so maybe that triggers this bug? My TV does keep the app in the background, so it's easy to have days or weeks using the app at a time. Will keep investigating.
