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I'd be happy if it would stop recommending I watch videos I have already watched all the way through.

by crb 7y ago

Jach 7y ago
Or at least keep it in the "watch again" section. I appreciate it from time-to-time for certain music videos and think "sure, I'll listen to that again".
izzydata 7y ago
I'd also appreciate if it went back to recommending videos similar to the current video I was on instead of having the same recommendations on every video now.
- Lewton 7y ago
  This was the best for discovering new content.... Ah, the good old days
- cronix 7y ago
  No kidding. You can hit refresh as much as you want and it keeps showing the exact same recommendations. Very annoying, but not nearly as bad as all of the censorship going on, imho.
- srathi 7y ago
  This change drives me nuts! Earlier, listening to a song brought up similar songs. But now the recommendation list is filled up with old videos that I've already watched and have no relation to the song being played. Why would I want to watch a Paw Patrol cartoon after listening to a sad Bollywood song?
- r00fus 7y ago
  That's the worse - share a computer (or some google account) with someone? Well you get to see all the stuff YT wants them to see also. YT is useful, but a trainwreck I simply don't allow my family to watch. It even got my Dad (who's aged/infirm) to become paranoid due to the push-to-extreme-content problem. Best way to solve? Remove YT from his TV.
dredds 7y ago
I'd be happy if it didn't recommend the exact same videos two or three times on the same page, but that seems a lot to expect apparently.
otakucode 7y ago
This is a flaw of the fundamental nature of the service. If it were a clientside application, keeping track of your entire viewing history forever would be trivial. But because it's on a remote server, keeping everyones history forever would be very difficult. I would guess they're probably using a bloom filter and just not dedicating enough resources to it per-user. Or, maybe even more likely, they ran 1 experiment 1 time on a few users and discovered that re-watching previously watched content was popular and extrapolated from that - ignoring that their sample size included a great many children (since they outnumber adults) resulting in them just expecting everyone to act like children.

I'd be happy if it would stop recommending I watch videos I have already watched all the way through.

by crb 7y ago

I'd be happy if it would stop recommending I watch videos I have already watched all the way through.

Jach 7y ago

Or at least keep it in the "watch again" section. I appreciate it from time-to-time for certain music videos and think "sure, I'll listen to that again".

izzydata 7y ago

I'd also appreciate if it went back to recommending videos similar to the current video I was on instead of having the same recommendations on every video now.

Lewton 7y ago
This was the best for discovering new content.... Ah, the good old days
cronix 7y ago
No kidding. You can hit refresh as much as you want and it keeps showing the exact same recommendations. Very annoying, but not nearly as bad as all of the censorship going on, imho.
srathi 7y ago
This change drives me nuts! Earlier, listening to a song brought up similar songs. But now the recommendation list is filled up with old videos that I've already watched and have no relation to the song being played. Why would I want to watch a Paw Patrol cartoon after listening to a sad Bollywood song?
r00fus 7y ago
That's the worse - share a computer (or some google account) with someone? Well you get to see all the stuff YT wants them to see also. YT is useful, but a trainwreck I simply don't allow my family to watch. It even got my Dad (who's aged/infirm) to become paranoid due to the push-to-extreme-content problem. Best way to solve? Remove YT from his TV.

dredds 7y ago

I'd be happy if it didn't recommend the exact same videos two or three times on the same page, but that seems a lot to expect apparently.

otakucode 7y ago

This is a flaw of the fundamental nature of the service. If it were a clientside application, keeping track of your entire viewing history forever would be trivial. But because it's on a remote server, keeping everyones history forever would be very difficult. I would guess they're probably using a bloom filter and just not dedicating enough resources to it per-user. Or, maybe even more likely, they ran 1 experiment 1 time on a few users and discovered that re-watching previously watched content was popular and extrapolated from that - ignoring that their sample size included a great many children (since they outnumber adults) resulting in them just expecting everyone to act like children.