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Re:Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommenda... by powersnail on Thursday September 17, 2020 @07:22PM (#24511171)
The thing is, it doesn’t even show me funny cat video anymore. It’s the same classical music video recommended over and over again.

To be honest, the more I think about it, the more I don’t know what money is YouTube trying to earn.

It’s probably just a dumb algorithm.

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Re:Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommenda... by jxramos on Thursday September 17, 2020 @08:06PM (#24511467)
I think it has a grasp of revisits, I forget the exact terminology but if you rewatch stuff I tries to predict will you like to watch it again. Some stuff is not worthing multiple times though, once is enough. But music videos can indeed be watched multiple times.

I think I heard somewhere that a lot of kid videos rank in the top stratosphere of view counts on YouTube because kids just play stuff on repeat. There's probably a lot of repeat plays going on across YouTube.

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