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Can you elaborate on the problem with YouTube? Other people have mentioned it too here. I use it pretty frequently and it seems to work the way it always did, m

Can you elaborate on the problem with YouTube? Other people have mentioned it too here. I use it pretty frequently and it seems to work the way it always did, more or less. Hell, they don't even bug me with original content recommendations the way they did briefly (and the way Netflix continues to).

mcculley 8y ago
Maybe he is referring to things like the weird videos for kids that emerged from monetization: https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2 https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in...
larkeith 8y ago
Not OP, but I posted a comment regarding YouTube for mobile here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18075895 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18075895
- wutbrodo 8y ago
  Interesting, I haven't ever used YouTube mobile web (despite generally preferring to use web to native when possible) because I've never found it up to snuff, presumably for technical reasons. I wasn't aware the quality had declined. Thanks for the info!
frabcus 8y ago
The recommendation algorithm seems to radicalise people politically. There is some research on this - Zeynep Tufekci is the best communicator of it. Overview in the New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po... There are flaws in the algorithm - 1) for scaling reasons it doesn't run full deep learning over everything, but uses a simple popular-only algorithm first. 2) it is optimised for next video watch time, which is a very shallow measure of what the user really wants long term. https://www.quora.com/How-does-YouTubes-recommendation-algorithm-work/answer/Francis-Irving https://www.quora.com/How-does-YouTubes-recommendation-algor...

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Can you elaborate on the problem with YouTube? Other people have mentioned it too here. I use it pretty frequently and it seems to work the way it always did, m

by wutbrodo 8y ago

mcculley 8y ago
Maybe he is referring to things like the weird videos for kids that emerged from monetization: https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2 https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in...
larkeith 8y ago
Not OP, but I posted a comment regarding YouTube for mobile here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18075895 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18075895
- wutbrodo 8y ago
  Interesting, I haven't ever used YouTube mobile web (despite generally preferring to use web to native when possible) because I've never found it up to snuff, presumably for technical reasons. I wasn't aware the quality had declined. Thanks for the info!
frabcus 8y ago
The recommendation algorithm seems to radicalise people politically. There is some research on this - Zeynep Tufekci is the best communicator of it. Overview in the New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po... There are flaws in the algorithm - 1) for scaling reasons it doesn't run full deep learning over everything, but uses a simple popular-only algorithm first. 2) it is optimised for next video watch time, which is a very shallow measure of what the user really wants long term. https://www.quora.com/How-does-YouTubes-recommendation-algorithm-work/answer/Francis-Irving https://www.quora.com/How-does-YouTubes-recommendation-algor...