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Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

#22
post #9

Does 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?

If one is added to a playlist they can, at least.

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

#23
post #9

Does 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?

No they will not be listed when the user searches for them.

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

#25
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

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

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

#28
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

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

Because a lot of people care of recommendations? If you watch news on yt then maybe recommendations are garbage but if you watch videos related to some niche activity or music then recommendations are a godsend.

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

#29
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

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

Because they want useful recommendations and astronaut is feeding Google bad data?

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

#30

It needs an "upvote" or "downvote" button so people can filter out the better videos that others should watch.

That seriously defeats the purpose of the site: unflitered discovery, nonjudgement, kismet, etc. Our global culture is deviating towards the norm because our tech encourages that behavior. I love it for what it is.
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