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It looks like I have to pay for Medium premium in order to read this story... can anyone give me a tl;dr? Or it looks like I can use Google cache text only to get around the paywall but that seems sub-par.
Am going to see if I can update the link above aswell.
great idea! thanks for sharing this. Recently I noticed I get better suggestions when I am logged out [0]. I am still convinced someone could implement a recommendation system that can suggest more interesting videos based on my history. And it would make me spend more time on the platform so it would be actually win-win if that could have been done by youtube but given their current priorities on monetization I don'…
I think you're right re: monetisation and incentives tbh, I can't envisage it changing any time soon
This is great. I feel the same way, but have been trying to train the existing YT algorithm. I started using my work email youtube profile to actively subscribe/like/save videos that I want to see more of (about hiring, management, culture, Kubernetes, devtools etc). At the same time I aggressively choose "not interested" and "do not suggest this channel" when the algorithm isn't suggesting what I want (more detail:…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I usually do that but was presented with this text from medium after I signed in: > Not every story on Medium is free, like this one. Become a member to get unlimited access and support the voices you want to hear more from. Which makes it sounds like this is a paid article regardless. Incognito worked though thank you.
I'm pretty sure the intended reading of "Not every story on Medium is free, like this one." is "This one is free, but not every story on Medium is."
It looks like I have to pay for Medium premium in order to read this story... can anyone give me a tl;dr? Or it looks like I can use Google cache text only to get around the paywall but that seems sub-par.
Didn't realise Medium was like this - I've just uploaded the article to my personal blog: https://chrislovejoy.me/youtube-algorithm/ Am going to see if I can update the link above aswell.
It looks like I have to pay for Medium premium in order to read this story... can anyone give me a tl;dr? Or it looks like I can use Google cache text only to get around the paywall but that seems sub-par.
Didn't realise Medium was like this - I've just uploaded the article to my personal blog: https://chrislovejoy.me/youtube-algorithm/ Am going to see if I can update the link above aswell.
This is great. I feel the same way, but have been trying to train the existing YT algorithm. I started using my work email youtube profile to actively subscribe/like/save videos that I want to see more of (about hiring, management, culture, Kubernetes, devtools etc). At the same time I aggressively choose "not interested" and "do not suggest this channel" when the algorithm isn't suggesting what I want (more detail:…
This is great. I feel the same way, but have been trying to train the existing YT algorithm. I started using my work email youtube profile to actively subscribe/like/save videos that I want to see more of (about hiring, management, culture, Kubernetes, devtools etc). At the same time I aggressively choose "not interested" and "do not suggest this channel" when the algorithm isn't suggesting what I want (more detail:…
interesting - sounds like you've had good results so far?
I was worried I'd accidentally nuke my gmail account, but turns out you can delete your YouTube account + history without affecting any of your other Google services (I did it last night).
Really love the intent there. Great stuff.