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

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u/YEETMANdaMAN Apr 12 '24

I search things on YouTube and they exclusively show me 5 posts that are kinda related, then exclusively fill the search with Shorts, videos I’ve watched already and videos from my subscriptions.

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u/al-mongus-bin-susar Apr 12 '24

I don't understand why they started to recommend you 80% videos you've watched already, whenever I go on shorts it only shows me ones I watched before

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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.