Comment by mvdtnz
7 months ago
What's even more insane is that if you hover a video for 5 seconds it thinks you "watched" it and it goes into your watch history.
7 months ago
What's even more insane is that if you hover a video for 5 seconds it thinks you "watched" it and it goes into your watch history.
Ah, that's why my feed seems like waves of themes. One opens the door a bit and then suddenly 30% of the videos on next page load have similar theme, (almost) completely forgetting tens of other videos of other themes I watches in past week.
Ie I hovered over one video of some Ronny Chieng commentary of RFK jr yesterday which somehow popped out of blue, and next time half of my feed was hardcore political with current admin (nothing what few Not interested clicks won't solve but then I am battling over-optimization of video platform).
I guess it suits certain audience well and keeps the feed fresh, but such behavior would cater to some maybe other type person better than me.
Does the creator get credit for that? I've got a few friends that need a few million views and I could easily write a mouse driver to take care of that.
It would probably hurt more than help, by way of retention metrics.
I found this "feature" triggers on videos I didn't even hover the mouse over.