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In other news YouTube released Stories (Snapchat / Instagram feature) to make help users be "more engaged" ... https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/29/18117670/yout
by harryf 8y ago
In other news YouTube released Stories (Snapchat / Instagram feature) to make help users be "more engaged" ... https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/29/18117670/youtube-stories-creators-subscribers-instagram-philip-defranco https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/29/18117670/youtube-stories...
... give users so much control over their experience is counter to having algorithms that suck them into spending more time.
- Semaphor 8y agoConsidering that pretty much every huge service goes into the direction of less control over time (Amazon, Netflix are other examples), I assume that for other people this has to somehow be great and actually increase their engagement. For me (and I assume many others on HN) it simply makes the experience worse and recommendations less relevant.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoBeing great and increasing engagement are not necessarily correlated.
- Semaphor 8y agoIt is for me and, (again, my assumption) probably for most of HN. When I don't like stuff I'm just annoyed by it taking up space and if I somehow end up watching it, it's only for the few seconds it takes me to close it.
- LoSboccacc 8y agodo you engage with YouTube ads? because otherwise your not the target audience, you're a cost center. their optimization makes more sense when you consider what metrics generates them money. the one which I only partially understand is Netflix, but I think it's because of the show pricing hidden variable.