Subj : Re: 2o24 youtube - iCK.
To   : paulie420
From : Adept
Date : Sun Dec 31 2023 10:41 am

 pa> Very recently they've made some changes to the algorithm that I KNOW is
 pa> taking away the videos that I want to see... its showing me MUCH more
 pa> stuff it thinks I want and is terribly missing the mark. Worse is that

I don't know that it's recent, but I'm always sad that there isn't more user control over what's shown.

Since the point, oftentimes, is what gets you to click, and what gets you to watch longer.

So, if you keep watching cat videos, but you'd really rather stop being tempted by cat videos, it's challenging to make them go away.

And it's not like it'd be a technical masterwork to go, "Show me all videos from all subscriptions, sorted newest to oldest, filtering out all previously watched or marked as no longer needed (as opposed to, "don't show me this" kind of things, which would affect the algorithm.)"

They _could_ do that, but choose not to have it as an option, probably because it's way less addictive when there's an obvious end.

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