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Re: YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism

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Post by yellowapple »

dredds wrote: post #35

There is no way that "3 hours of planes taking off" or "3 hours of rain" are getting 10's of millions of views without getting recommended widely, including myself. 18 hours of "ambient sounds" has 130 million views so that's some heavy promotion, not just some occasional insomniac using search.

> "3 hours of planes taking off"

Now that's a video idea. I currently live right under the flight path for planes flying out of SFO; I should set up a camera and just record the sky, since they fly pretty close overhead.

Re: YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism

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Post by xg15 »

To be honest, this looks like a CYA feature to get out, not like something that is actually intended to be used.

They took pains to give the "follow the recommendation" action the most frictionless path possible in the UI - just wait and do nothing. In contrast, this new feature to dial back recommendations is a buried in an obscure menu only reachable by clicking a button labeled "..." in a counterintuitive location. I can think of few ways how you could increase the friction any more.

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Post by dredds »

darkpuma wrote: post #46
dredds wrote: post #35

There is no way that "3 hours of planes taking off" or "3 hours of rain" are getting 10's of millions of views without getting recommended widely, including myself. 18 hours of "ambient sounds" has 130 million views so that's some heavy promotion, not just some occasional insomniac using search.

Those sort of videos in particular have a very large replay value, as many insomniacs may play that video every night.

Which is kinda my point. The amount of HD traffic and wasted bandwidth is just insane. At what point would YT just acknowledge the same viewer is watching (or listening) the same video over and over and over again before offering a download button? (sure tech ppl can use 3rd-party tool, but all are blocked on Google Play, and most others limited to short vids only)

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Post by [deleted] »

buzzert wrote: post #23

This doesn’t really solve some of the more concerning things about recommendations, which is the gradual ease into more extreme content. i.e., “super Mario speedrun” to “Top 10 speedrunning fails” to “Super Mario speedrunner gets owned” to “Why women shouldn’t be allowed to play video games” or other such hogwash.

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Re: YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism

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Post by srathi »

izzydata wrote: post #14
crb wrote: post #13

I'd be happy if it would stop recommending I watch videos I have already watched all the way through.

I'd also appreciate if it went back to recommending videos similar to the current video I was on instead of having the same recommendations on every video now.

This change drives me nuts! Earlier, listening to a song brought up similar songs. But now the recommendation list is filled up with old videos that I've already watched and have no relation to the song being played. Why would I want to watch a Paw Patrol cartoon after listening to a sad Bollywood song?

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Post by likesfood »

Can we have the liberty of a society with information abundance without personal responsibility and coping mechanisms to deal with questionable information on the fringes? At some point humans need to adapt to information abundance. Historically adaptation to the new and scary required the subject to be immersed in the new context and most likely felt uncomfortable at the moment.

Re: YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism

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Post by r00fus »

izzydata wrote: post #14
crb wrote: post #13

I'd be happy if it would stop recommending I watch videos I have already watched all the way through.

I'd also appreciate if it went back to recommending videos similar to the current video I was on instead of having the same recommendations on every video now.

That's the worse - share a computer (or some google account) with someone? Well you get to see all the stuff YT wants them to see also.

YT is useful, but a trainwreck I simply don't allow my family to watch. It even got my Dad (who's aged/infirm) to become paranoid due to the push-to-extreme-content problem. Best way to solve? Remove YT from his TV.

Re: YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism

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Post by saint_fiasco »

dredds wrote: post #53
darkpuma wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those sort of videos in particular have a very large replay value, as many insomniacs may play that video every night.

Which is kinda my point. The amount of HD traffic and wasted bandwidth is just insane. At what point would YT just acknowledge the same viewer is watching (or listening) the same video over and over and over again before offering a download button? (sure tech ppl can use 3rd-party tool, but all are blocked on Google Play, and most others limited to short vids only)

Sophisticated ISPs hopefully cache that sort of thing.

Re: YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism

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Post by r00fus »

yellowapple wrote: post #51
dredds wrote: post #35

There is no way that "3 hours of planes taking off" or "3 hours of rain" are getting 10's of millions of views without getting recommended widely, including myself. 18 hours of "ambient sounds" has 130 million views so that's some heavy promotion, not just some occasional insomniac using search.

> "3 hours of planes taking off" Now that's a video idea. I currently live right under the flight path for planes flying out of SFO; I should set up a camera and just record the sky, since they fly pretty close overhead.

It's great. Some folks really could watch that all day.
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