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Re:Turning Off Autoplaying Previews by cle on Thursday February 06, 2020 @04:57PM (#22260835)
> They wouldn't intentionally make their recommendations worse just for the sake of it.

Why not? Every big platform that I know of has eventually done this with either 1p or “sponsored” content (Google, Amazon, Apple, etc.). In this case their incentive would be to push their own content above 3p content. What matters to them is their revenue, not maximizing the accuracy of their recommendations model.

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Re:Turning Off Autoplaying Previews by Dylan16807 on Friday February 07, 2020 @12:29AM (#22263471)
That still depends on a good recommendation system, it's just an extra finger on the balance.

Giving a boost to first party content is very different from making it "just worse".

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Re:Turning Off Autoplaying Previews by cle on Sunday February 09, 2020 @04:12PM (#22284340)
From a customer's perspective, there's no difference. These are just rationalizations the business tells itself for those who need to reduce their cognitive dissonance.
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