Re:‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked ...
by wccrawford on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @12:29PM
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I've noticed the same, except that it occasionally remembers and pops something up that I haven't watched in a while. I think, "Oh, I haven't seen one of those in a while!" about once a week now.
Re:‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked ...
by notahacker on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @12:23PM
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It's also reasonably good at context sensitivity, so when I'm playing a backing track for my guitar 90% of the recommendations are for other backing tracks, with the rest being decent song and music theory channel recommendations rather than whatever else I've been looking at this week.
The flip side is, I somehow appear to have accidentally clicked subscribe on some insane Trumpist 'news' channel I probably stumbled on via a forum link, and it very quickly took over the push notifications on my phone. That might be subscribe functionality working as intended, but it took more effort to identify the source of nonsense spam and unsubscribe from it...
Not really my experience. I'm not sure but I have the impression that the recommendation heuristic is very time-sensitive. Let say I watch sailing videos for a few days, it tends to forget I was interested in guitars the previous week.