I have noticed two changes this month: A lot more recommendations for videos with <100 views One long (>20s) unskippable ad followed by another with skip butt

I have noticed two changes this month: A lot more recommendations for videos with <100 views One long (>20s) unskippable ad followed by another with skip button but fewer intermittent videos throughout the rest of the video For long videos they will now roll an ad if you skip forward significantly So they are clearly doing two things: Pumping ads up for popular videos Randomly sampling new videos to put in the feed It’s an interesting exploit + explore strategy and it seems like everyone hates it