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Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by NegativeLatency »

gryffin wrote: post #44
licebmi__at__ wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some like me actually appreciate the youtube recomendations based on the previously watched content, but need to be extra careful when watching some kind of content that is likely to be weighted a lot by "power users". Example, I do not follow videogames, but I do enjoy watching speedruns of old games ocassionally, so I need to watch it on incognito mode so I won't have my recommendations flooded with videogame video…

Essentially with all that data, YouTube still hold a bad recommendation engine.

Or potentially the recommendations are tuned more towards ad revenue than your personal interests?

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by ehsankia »

yaleman wrote: post #47
chias wrote: post #4

Quoting astrocat from the previous thread: PSA: Watch in an private/incognito tab/window. If you are currently logged into your google account, this WILL pollute your watched history: https://www.youtube.com/feed/history

Turns out, even before you click on "OK" to start watching, it's doing it in the background - my watch history is now full of hours of this junk :(

You can click X on them and quickly remove them. If there's truly way too many (you left it open for hours), you can go to your Google's Activity page, filter youtube and delete everything from today with a button.

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by JoshTriplett »

NegativeLatency wrote: post #51
gryffin wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Essentially with all that data, YouTube still hold a bad recommendation engine.

Or potentially the recommendations are tuned more towards ad revenue than your personal interests?

Which from the user's perspective may be equivalent to "bad recommendation engine".

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by fbelzile »

_2d30 wrote: post #49

Amazing concept. This was an incredible thing to uncover during my few minutes on the site: https://youtu.be/1rvPbeHjzlk It's a video of a woman reciting a poem that she wrote for her eldest son that speaks of her love for her son and her wish that he would get "off the streets". Emotional, honest, real. YouTube like I've never experienced. Brilliant.

This project is fantastic and has potential in bringing people closer together. I just watched a man propose to his girlfriend in another language. (I'm pretty sure she said yes!)

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by TallGuyShort »

gamerDude wrote: post #5

This is a really weird premise for a site, but after a couple videos, all I could think was, this is an awesome glimpse at humanity.

And it makes me wonder about using similar approaches to break down the echo chambers we find ourselves in. We have a perception of what's normal based on what we see, but what we see is based on what we're already exposed to and what we ourselves do. Randomly seeing what a bunch of other people did this week? Great for that.

I also saw someone rave about "Donut" this week - schedules random 1-on-1's with people in your company to help with cross-pollination and bigger picture context. Chat Roulette and what a dumpster fire that is comes to mind, but I wonder if a LinkedIn-based service of a similar nature would be good just to learn about other companies, other corporate cultures, etc..

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