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Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Is this a joke? Whenever I press the button it skips to the next video instead of preventing it from switching. So the ones I want to see are immediately stopped. It's quite frustrating but I guess that's the point?

I can see how this could be confusing. If you click it once, on a fresh log in, it will stop switching. When you press it again it will resume switching.

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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What's vote fuzzing?

It's when you change upvotes and downvotes so that the ration stays similar, but now you can't consistently find if your downvoting bot had any effect.

Why on earth would that be something a platform does?

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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It's when you change upvotes and downvotes so that the ration stays similar, but now you can't consistently find if your downvoting bot had any effect.

Why on earth would that be something a platform does?

>> but now you can't consistently find if your downvoting bot had any effect.

I'd say that's why. To deter dislike bots

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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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.

Do a significant amt of YouTube users use playlists? I’ve always assumed no. Unless perhaps they are doing it for music since you’re talking about YouTube Mix. And songs.
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