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YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views
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#112Quoting 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
Also consider using Firefox and enabling `privacy.firstparty.isolate`, which will separate the cookies for third-party embeds from their own domain, thereby preventing this (as the embed doesn’t see you as logged-in).
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or, just pause viewing history; YouTube has a control for that.
Will that pause recommendations and everything else with the already weak algo?
The recommendations will mostly be derived from the videos you have saved in playlists. And the front page will always shows Youtube Mixes about the last song you were listening to, at the time of turning off the watch history.
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#114Wow, incredible. I feel like an alien watching this strange planet called earth.
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#115No matter where you look on YouTube, there always seems to be a pyramid scheme to hop onto:
I hope he was able to retire after all!
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#116Does this respect the 'unlisted' setting for a video? I recently uploaded some videos and set them all to unlisted, and yet some of them received views despite me not viewing them or handing out a link. I meant to dig into that more but forgot after getting distracted. Can unlisted videos be found by a program like this, which I assume is using the API?
We [0] index YouTube actively and see way over 5.5B videos [1] at this point. We catch a lot of unlisted videos and we did try to figure out how is that possible in the past.
It seems that a lot of users will upload video which is by default published with the default settings and thus is visible from the outside. Even if they change the settings fairly quickly, automated systems like ours will already know about the existence of that video.
There could be other reasons but this seems the most likely, especially as a video that is being uploaded can be published fairly swiftly.
[0] https://pex.com
[1] https://blog.pex.com/what-content-dominates-on-youtube-39081...
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#117I just have views of a planet and some spacecraft flying above the surface. How can I get the actual videos to play? There is no GO button anywhere.
C'mon. You know you have to turn of noscript, etc, to get most sites like this to work.
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#118Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views
#119I just have views of a planet and some spacecraft flying above the surface. How can I get the actual videos to play? There is no GO button anywhere.
Disable uBlock Origin. I had the same problem
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#120Earlier 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.
I like YouTube's recommendation engine, it is the only good one I've used.