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Re:Google Maps won't let you save home address without allow... by wutbrodo on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @09:05AM (#18075491)
Can you elaborate on the problem with YouTube? Other people have mentioned it too here. I use it pretty frequently and it seems to work the way it always did, more or less. Hell, they don't even bug me with original content recommendations the way they did briefly (and the way Netflix continues to).
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Re:Google Maps won't let you save home address without allow... by mcculley on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @09:52AM (#18075897)
Maybe he is referring to things like the weird videos for kids that emerged from monetization: https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in...
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Re:Google Maps won't let you save home address without allow... by frabcus on Sunday September 30, 2018 @05:51PM (#18108630)
The recommendation algorithm seems to radicalise people politically. There is some research on this - Zeynep Tufekci is the best communicator of it. Overview in the New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po...

There are flaws in the algorithm - 1) for scaling reasons it doesn't run full deep learning over everything, but uses a simple popular-only algorithm first. 2) it is optimised for next video watch time, which is a very shallow measure of what the user really wants long term.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-YouTubes-recommendation-algor...

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Re:Google Maps won't let you save home address without allow... by larkeith on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @09:53AM (#18075910)
Not OP, but I posted a comment regarding YouTube for mobile here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18075895
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Re:Google Maps won't let you save home address without allow... by wutbrodo on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @10:40AM (#18076395)
Interesting, I haven't ever used YouTube mobile web (despite generally preferring to use web to native when possible) because I've never found it up to snuff, presumably for technical reasons. I wasn't aware the quality had declined. Thanks for the info!
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