Ask HN: Why is making a good recommendation system for YouTube hard?

Re:Ask HN: Why is making a good recommendation system for Yo... by mancerayder on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @12:52PM (#25520127)

Is that what it's detecting you might like due to having profiled you based on other aspects of your google identity unrelated to that cookie reset? I think if you were a teen, for example, you might get skateboarding videos or Billie Eilish or certain games or whatever teens do or like these days, rather than "X TOTALLY DESTROYS Y" (two people in suits and ties in a political debate).

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Re:Ask HN: Why is making a good recommendation system for Yo... by gen3 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @02:14PM (#25520992)

I don’t log in to YouTube on any of my devices and the same thing happens to me if the cookie ever resets. You can kinda see what “real” YouTube is by just opening a private tab. After you click on something it tries really hard to funnel you into a specific demographic. I’ll see videos I’ve watched before as it’s testing the waters on what I will click on.

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