> They're not getting any ad revenue from me, so why am I stuck with their recommender that only cares what it thinks will cause me to spend the most time on Yo

> They're not getting any ad revenue from me, so why am I stuck with their recommender that only cares what it thinks will cause me to spend the most time on YouTube. I can think of two reasons. 1. If YT recommends good content to people, and make them watch YT more, they are more likely to keep paying the monthly subscription fee. So I'm not sure that the recommender is completely useless for their subscription business. I do agree that for subscribers, the weight of engagement metrics should probably be lowered in favor of user satisfaction or some other metrics. 2. YouTube is an extremely complex system developed over many years, and it's very expensive and error-prone to try and change anything. For many years, it was monetized through ads; so it was designed around that goal. The monthly subscription is relatively new, and it's still probably a tiny fraction of the ad revenues, so many features of YouTube are just left untouched even when they don't make much sense for monthly subscribers.