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Re:Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervisio... by stolenmerch on Monday September 27, 2021 @12:22PM (#28672661)
This is a feature and I love it. I don't want to subscribe to football channels, for example, but if I'm in the mood I watch a couple of them and then it shows me related videos for a few more hours and then it switches when I decide to search for cooking videos, of which I don't want to subscribe to either. Works great.
Re:Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervisio... by naravara on Monday September 27, 2021 @12:36PM (#28672845)
They could easily let you accomplish this by just giving you an option to actively seek out this content by giving you a "What else is like this?" button that takes you to a 'related videos' page.

The problem when it just puts it all in a single recommendation feed is that that feed more-or-less presents itself as "here's what the world is talking about" rather than "here's a bunch of stuff that conforms to the biases and ideological filters of the stuff you've been watching lately." It creates a solipsistic worldview if you're not aware of what's going on.

Re:Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervisio... by JohnWhigham on Monday September 27, 2021 @04:51PM (#28675854)
There needs to be a plugin to wipe cookies on every YouTube page load. The recommended videos list for a given video on your first visit? Excellent. Every subsequent page load where they give recommendations pertaining to a video from 30 minutes ago? Absolute garbage.