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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by INTPenis on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @04:31PM (#39771672)
Until they make a sudden and illogical change to their design.
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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by ethbr1 on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @04:46PM (#39771811)
YouTube UX: "We have this one weird cohort that's responding abnormally to all our UI A/B testing..."
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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by kibwen on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @04:51PM (#39771866)
Only until enough parrot owners find out about this, at which point parrots overtake the human population of Youtube and the metrics start catering to them.
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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by ethbr1 on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @05:50PM (#39772415)
YouTube optimizing for toddlers and parrots makes a lot of sense, now that I think about it...

And that's to say nothing of the parrot ad click farms.

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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by 082349872349872 on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @05:03PM (#39772008)
> and the metrics start catering to them

"in order to access this functionality, you must first chew through the charging cable"

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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by layer8 on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @08:13PM (#39773588)
Just wait until the stochastic parrots discover YouTube…
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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by qohen on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:17AM (#39775627)
Leading to something a bit like this, then? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31XFe2g98RU
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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by riwsky on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @05:55PM (#39772463)
Parrots are the original stochastic parrot
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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by yieldcrv on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @08:00PM (#39773483)
“Odd that its 50 year old males in Florida”
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