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Another incredibly annoying part of Stories is that if you do flip through them, each time a new one loads, it counts as a view in your viewing history. This of
by registeredcorn 3y ago
Another incredibly annoying part of Stories is that if you do flip through them, each time a new one loads, it counts as a view in your viewing history. This of itself, would not be a bad thing, but here's the problem:
It tries to routinely recommend low quality, low effort, small YouTube channels. I routinely get YouTube channels that have 5-10 subscribers, bot comments, and uploaded videos of uninteresting gameplay clip, and a mic with audio clipping. The more I watch, the more these low effort channels are recommended to me because I've already "watched" so many of them, even if it was only for 1 or 2 seconds.
I make a point of hitting "Do not recommend channel" and not interacting with the channel, because I don't want that to count as a metric of "interaction", but the view itself seems to increase the problem. There are way too many low effort, terrible content channels out there for me to block them all.
So, the more I use Shorts, the worse the quality becomes.
One might think, "Okay, so remove it from your view history." Not a bad idea! But the problem is that these are shorts. Videos have to be under 60 seconds. Most are around 15-30 seconds. In 10 minutes I could probably watch 20 videos, give or take. This means, unless I break out of the loop of watching shorts - remove myself from the interface they want me to be using - I cannot keep any sort of handle over these low effort channels clogging up my viewing habits.
It's incredibly bad and I really despise it.
Most of the channels I actually subscribe to or care about will apologize for having to include a link for a "real" video because of the stupid 60 second limit. Some of them might be able to get by with 90 to 120 seconds, but 60 seconds is just such a tiny amount of time. It actively discourages any sort of meaningful content. It's just quips, nonsense, and poorly cut video clips. It's just bad.