Re:The golden age of YouTube is over
by pxtail on Friday April 05, 2019 @04:25PM
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One more important thing, one should never, ever make mistake and spontaneously watch any random, interesting video without using incognito mode - few mistakes like this and your feed will be pure garbage river, flowing uncontrollably.
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Re:The golden age of YouTube is over
by trainerzzz on Friday April 05, 2019 @07:41PM
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Okay, think about what this means: it's no longer about the system finding videos for you. It's now about you telling the system which videos are good. The exact opposite of the goal.
In order to provide signalling, you have to watch a video, incognito, and then, after determining the video's instrinsic value, possibly re-watch it in cookied spyware (ahem! "normal") mode, so that the system is permitted to log "awareness" of your assent to recognize an alteration to your viewing habits.
Do you see how backwards that really is?
Re:The golden age of YouTube is over
by frosted-flakes on Friday April 05, 2019 @09:51PM
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No, that's why I disable search and watch history. Watching a video won't affect my feed; only upvoting it or subscribing to the channel does that.
That doesn't work for me. I've had watch history disabled for years and I still get recommended videos in the sidebar that are related to videos I've merely watched.
I wish there was an extension to remove all the "Recommended for you" entries and only show videos related to the current videos.