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Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by Moru »

licebmi__at__ wrote: post #32
human20190310 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would someone who is concerned about their watch history have watch history enabled at all?

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…

I always watch youtube from a privacy window so most suggestions are related to what I'm searching at the time.

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by systemtest »

Firerouge wrote: post #126
gbudee wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a discovery. I feel a bit intrusive getting to experience it. I hope her communication succeeds.

~1 kiloviews now with 152:3 thumbs ratio, why would someone dislike this!?

Perhaps YouTube applies vote fuzzing similar to Reddit.

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by krn »

theon144 wrote: post #140

I kind of like the periodic switching and "hands-free" experience, but the idea itself isn't too original[0][1][2] and I am not a fan of the video taking up about 25% of my screen estate, the rest taken up by an unrelated, distracting stock space video. 0: http://defaultfile.name/ 1: https://www.randomlyinspired.com/noviews 2: https://www.incognitube.com/

> but the idea itself isn't too original

It's not immediately clear which one is the "original one", but this one has been around since at least 2012[1].

[1] https://github.com/wonga00/astronaut/commit/a9bdaf0d00588b7a...

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by retube »

kenjackson wrote: post #107

I 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.

Yup also no button for me. I am in a corp environment so possibly something blocked (youtube is for example, so am not expecting the site to work anyway)

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by eteos »

fortran77 wrote: post #117
kenjackson wrote: post #107

I 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.

That's like saying you need to plug the cable ;) Sounds more like some cross browser issue.

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by Delameko »

Firerouge wrote: post #126
gbudee wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a discovery. I feel a bit intrusive getting to experience it. I hope her communication succeeds.

~1 kiloviews now with 152:3 thumbs ratio, why would someone dislike this!?

I think some bots randomly upvote/downvote in an attempt to appear human.

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by mmikeff »

TallGuyShort wrote: post #57
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 y…

Your comment reminded me of interviewing.io and their strapline "chat roulette without the dicks" Similar idea but for engineering interviews and practice interviews
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