Comment on YouTube is testing a mystery button that starts playing random videos

shotgun_crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  their search function also returns primarily random, unrelated videos… I think they just don’t like people deciding what they look at

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  • RealM@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They can control your watch time better if you make less decisions. Just be a good little brainless consumer and scroll through endless amounts of bullshit instead of specifically finding one video, then doing something else.

    It started with autoplay, wormed it's way into search feature, and now it's all over home and subscriptions.

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• Octopus1348@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I feel the same. It will probably be more random than shorts in which the algorithm decides what to give you.

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