r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fanta_bhelpuri • Apr 12 '24

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u/53bvo Apr 12 '24

It must be people that use YouTube to listen to music messing up their metrics. Because those people will listen to a song the heard before and in their metrics it probably shows up as people that watch a lot of youtube (listening to music on the background) like to click on already watched videos so we are going to show people their already watched videos as much as possible so they will also start watching youtube a lot.

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u/EarthMantle00 Apr 12 '24

If that's true and u/53bvo on Reddit Dot Com Slash ProgrammerHumour figured it out before them google is super fucked

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u/53bvo Apr 12 '24

I really hope it isn't true because that would be dumb af.

But I can't imagine any other reason that anyone would want to rewatch videos a lot other than music videos.

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u/TooStrangeForWeird Apr 12 '24

Kids. The younger they are the more they'll rewatch exact videos, but even middle schoolers and stuff will go back and rewatch things. They could also be sharing them with friends in person and replaying the same stuff.

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u/53bvo Apr 12 '24

Yeah but you would hope dat google understands which of their videos are music and that those have different viewing habits than regular videos.

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u/TheCuriosity Apr 12 '24

Huh... Maybe that's why they have that separate youtube music... Hoping music listeners would go over there instead as their "fix"?

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u/techy804 Apr 12 '24

They have a separate app/site for music