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Does the potential lesser engagement with videos matter in the face of those videos causing a delay in loading the page that displays them? You'd need to check
by knome 2y ago
Does the potential lesser engagement with videos matter in the face of those videos causing a delay in loading the page that displays them? You'd need to check per-video engagement drop against people not bothering to engage with the site in the first place.
- estebank 2y agoThis is an example of the tragedy of the commons: the watch time effect is tracked by YouTube, which maximises for it, but the drop off of visitors to the site is something YouTube doesn't "care" about (doesn't track it directly, doesn't optimize for it, etc.).
- crabmusket 2y agoIn this scenario, what is the "commons"?
- paulmd 2y agoeveryone else’s engagement except Google’s will be degraded by the increased page load times