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Because that would let you find what you want more quickly, so they wouldn't have as much time to show you ads.
by josephcsible 2y ago
Because that would let you find what you want more quickly, so they wouldn't have as much time to show you ads.
- leros 2y agoI assume YouTube's core metric is watch time and so building features that reduce watch time is a no go. Not really related, but I thought of this. I used to work on a popular search engine. Our main metric started out as number of searches and number of results clicked on. That made sense as we were working on increasing the number of relevant results. Eventually we had to pivot the opposite direction because we wanted people to find the best result the fastest, which means less searches and less clicks on results. Kind of interesting how a core metric can flip like that. I could see YouTube potentially making lower watch time a goal if they make the experience of finding useful information so slow that people go elsewhere.
- muzani 2y agoThey could make it a YouTube Premium feature.
- wseqyrku 2y agoThey could still put some unskippable ad on the timestamp links like they do if you click on a video, I doubt if that's the reason.
- stuxnet79 2y agoExactly, and the same explanation holds for any odd UI quirk you see in a for-profit SaaS. Spotify for example, has a lot of frustrating aspects to its UI, but everything makes sense in the context of $$$