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>Recommendations drive a significant amount of the overall viewership on YouTube, even more than channel subscriptions or search. Chicken/egg. Above is true is
by hammock 5y ago
>Recommendations drive a significant amount of the overall viewership on YouTube, even more than channel subscriptions or search.
Chicken/egg. Above is true is because they flood the sidebar with algorithmic recos instead of your subscriptions, and have tuned their notifications to not give you as many, even if you are subscribed and even if you click the notification bell.