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Youtube is so bad at suggesting videos for me that it mystifies me how people could be addicted to it. "Oh you watched one video about [x] by creator [y]. Her
by LegitShady 4y ago
Youtube is so bad at suggesting videos for me that it mystifies me how people could be addicted to it.
"Oh you watched one video about [x] by creator [y]. Here are 100 more videos by creatory [y]. Here are 100 more videos about [x]"
...uh I watched a recipe for cheesecake. I don't need 100 more cheesecake videos, or even 100 more recipes by that youtuber.
- manimino 4y agoI have this problem with recommendation engines generally. Spotify, Netflix, Steam, etc. They are very bad at making novel, interesting recommendations. They will also blindly recommend popular things, which is irritating. Steam is an exception here - it has a slider bar that allows exclusion of popular content in favor of niche / indie stuff.
- LegitShady 4y agooh you watched one video about MMA? Here's 10 million things about MMA. Oh you watched a video about the war in ukraine? Here's another 10 million videos about the war in ukraine. When I first studied recommendation algorithms I remember the classic "people who buy hamburgers and hamburger buns also buy ketchup and mustard" sort of things. On youtube its more like people who watch a video about anything are doomed to be recommended further videos about that thing forever, and adjacent 'also watched' related topics aren't really a thing.