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Do you like watching normie stuff? Like 90% of what I watch on YouTube is recommendations for my weird tastes, and I feel like without a recommendation algorith
by donatj 7y ago
Do you like watching normie stuff? Like 90% of what I watch on YouTube is recommendations for my weird tastes, and I feel like without a recommendation algorithm the site would be largely useless?
- CrazyStat 7y agoI never go to YouTube looking for a recommendation of something to watch. The recommendations algorithm is entirely useless for me. YouTube without a recommendation algorithm is just fine. I go there either because I'm linked to a specific video, I'm searching for something specific (too specific for the recommendation algorithm), or to check if any of the few channels I follow have posted anything new.
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- deith 7y ago>Do you like watching normie stuff? I don't watch popular youtubers, I don't listen to (currently) popular music, I don't watch the television, I don't watch sports. I even get make-up tutorials, and I'm a male! That's all the front page of youtube has to offer to me: things that I'm unlikely to ever click on. >I feel like without a recommendation algorithm the site would be largely useless? That's because for you and many other people youtube is an activity, like turning on the telly. You open youtube and you expect to be entertained, and that's what the recommendation algorithm is for. For me, youtube is a tool: I open it, search for something, watch it, then close it.
- fiatjaf 7y agoThat's so sexist of you to think males can't do make-up!
- Avamander 7y agoI have the same experience, I don't think I'd use YouTube at all if it recommended me the default garbage I see when I open it in incognito.