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Is YouTube's video recommendation algorithm completely borked?
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magic:
Another huge issue is that the Internet you miss was a niche thing mostly limited to people at least intelligent enough to configure a modem and install a web browser. I kid you not, this rules out probably 75% of the population right away. But over the last decade it has been "democratized" so much that every idiot is here and beencounters learned to follow the money. You may refuse to waste time on cat videos or "shorts" and maybe even boycott YT over that, but you will be replaced by ten newcomers from TikTok. And they don't even know how to install AdBlock...

Daily reminder that if you ever invent a time machine, please go back and assassinate Steve Jobs ASAP. The original beencounter who betrayed us and followed the money before other beencounters even saw that a money was there.
larrybud:
Re: hovering over a video counts as "playing" it, you can turn that off. Click on your account in the upper right -> Settings -> Play back and performance -> Turn off "Video Previews"
YurkshireLad:

--- Quote from: larrybud on February 04, 2024, 01:23:54 am ---Re: hovering over a video counts as "playing" it, you can turn that off. Click on your account in the upper right -> Settings -> Play back and performance -> Turn off "Video Previews"

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YouTube keeps reenabling that option on my account. Very annoying.
SiliconWizard:
Yes, YT tends to re-enable options you have disabled on a regular basis. That's sweet of them. In case you had changed your mind, but wouldn't know yet. I think at some point they'll consider they know you better than you know yourself. Then again, before YT, shrinks used to believe the same thing. So. :-DD
BrianHG:

--- Quote from: magic on February 03, 2024, 10:58:04 pm ---Another huge issue is that the Internet you miss was a niche thing mostly limited to people at least intelligent enough to configure a modem and install a web browser. I kid you not, this rules out probably 75% of the population right away. But over the last decade it has been "democratized" so much that every idiot is here and beencounters learned to follow the money. You may refuse to waste time on cat videos or "shorts" and maybe even boycott YT over that, but you will be replaced by ten newcomers from TikTok. And they don't even know how to install AdBlock...

Daily reminder that if you ever invent a time machine, please go back and assassinate Steve Jobs ASAP. The original beencounter who betrayed us and followed the money before other beencounters even saw that a money was there.

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Sounds like you are wishing for a shadow professionals only internet.  Basically all the .coms would have an equivalent .pro of their web services, but only people of a certain IQ are allowed access to those versions of the net.
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