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Ask HN: Does YouTube play junk when you fall asleep?
-- noticed that when youtube thinks I'm sleeping the stuff it serves up on auto is mostly junk - almost always stuff way outside my interests - often very old - I was trying to think why the algo picks such strange stuff for me to watch when I'm asleep - the only good thing I could come up with is that they know i'm asleep - don't want to pay ad revenue when I'm asleep - this happen with anyone else? --
- PaulHoule 4y agoYou'd expect it to play better results first and worse results later.
- _odey 4y agoYes, kind off. But I've developed a habbitt. Whenever I feel like falling asleep I simply go to this playlist [0], set it on shuffle an repeat, and all is good. It also helps that I have uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock active. My advice: find yourself a long and "innocent" playlist and run it a few times. The content around it and related to it gets better with time and the junk just falls off after a while. [0] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl6BRvEJ-auZ5aYPHj1B3pKJ_pLjg9qNU https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl6BRvEJ-auZ5aYPHj1B3pKJ_...
- Khelavaster 4y agoProbably put you in the same category as other people who like to watch the junk late at night...
- aurizon 4y agoYoutube has discovered a new revenues source, what you sleep-watched. They can shovel whatever they like - whatever is the best $$ spinner. It might be worthwhile to have rooms full of raspberry Pi's 'watching' and clicking. I see the exhaustion of an advertising platform as there is push back as invoiced clicks fail to meet projected revenue flows and are culled.
- mindcrime 4y agoNot for me, but I (almost always) very intentionally start a 10 hour long track of something like "rain and thunderstorm noises" or "raging snowstorm and crackling fire noises" right before going to bed.
- logicalmonster 4y ago> don't want to pay ad revenue when I'm asleep I wouldn't be inclined to give YouTube the benefit of the doubt, but one potential explanation if we were being charitable is that they're legitimately trying not to interrupt peoples' sleep. A random YouTube ad with loud audio interrupting any random video with steady audio would be far more likelier to wake you up and piss you off royally.