Re:YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’...
by chii on Saturday August 19, 2023 @11:54PM
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> What's weird to me is once upon a time the home feed was your subscriptions feed.
it's not weird if you examine it from the point of view of user retention metrics.
A subscription recommendation runs out, since you have small number of subscriptions (compared to the whole of youtube). Google wants to keep you clicking, and watching the next video. Algorithmically recommending videos instead of your subscription means you now have effectively infinite list of videos to watch, keeping your eyeball youtube.
it's not weird if you examine it from the point of view of user retention metrics.
A subscription recommendation runs out, since you have small number of subscriptions (compared to the whole of youtube). Google wants to keep you clicking, and watching the next video. Algorithmically recommending videos instead of your subscription means you now have effectively infinite list of videos to watch, keeping your eyeball youtube.