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0 pointsdriverdan9y ago0 comments

They're not great. About 40% of the recommendations are things I'd never watch, 40% are things I've already watched.

YT has trouble figuring me out because I watch a lot of gamers that also appeal to a younger audience (eg Yogscast). I get recommended a lot of terrible stuff targeted at that audience that I have no interest in (eg PewDiePie and Markiplier).

I have no idea why they recommend stuff I've already watched.

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nkrisc9y ago

I too can not figure out why YT wants me to watch things again. Or also common, the last 10 seconds of a video is just links to the user's other videos, so I move on. Then YT wants me to "finish watching" it. No, I don't want to finish watching the last 5 seconds of an outro.

slig9y ago

> Then YT wants me to "finish watching" it. No, I don't want to finish watching the last 5 seconds of an outro.

I have this issue with Netflix. I have tons of movies on "continue watching" that the only thing left to watch is the credits.

Natanael_L9y ago

Scroll to the end, let it spend 5-10 seconds to finish. Done.

VLM9y ago

My own daughter uses YT almost exclusively as a music jukebox so sure, here comes that Taylor Swift song again, why not.

IF YT even understands that different populations use their system in completely different manner, then perhaps they've miscategorized you.

Something interesting to think about is we may be raising a population who see personalized suggestions as mere spam, if it suggests it you should ignore it because its always wrong. A poisoning of the well. In that way the whole concept of personalized advertisement might disappear.

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