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Re:Before YouTube’s algorithm, there were ‘coolhunters’ by smrtinsert on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @01:29AM (#32746713)
2015-6 or so was the magical era for me. Intelligent enough to suggest you related content before you knew you needed but still early enough to not have to suffer through endless repetitive video spam for ad views.
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Re:Before YouTube’s algorithm, there were ‘coolhunters’ by arcanemachined on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @02:16AM (#32747025)
Agreed. It was also before YouTube got really heavy-handed with the, ah, manual algorithmic interventions.
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