Comment on YouTube is testing a mystery button that starts playing random videos
PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months agotheir search function also returns primarily random, unrelated videos… I think they just don’t like people deciding what they look at
RealM@kbin.social 10 months 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.