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What bothers me most about the recommendations I get are the videos I have clearly watched. "You recently watched this clip, so we at YouTube think you should watch it again."

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I do rewatch some of my history every now and then, mostly music and comedy clips. But it seems like YouTube doesn't understand that this works for some content, but not for all.

This is like Amazon recommending the exact same item you just bought, sometimes from a different brand or vendor. "We see you bought a toaster, surely you need a hundred more."

Mabey they know that the first one you bought is scheduled to stop working soon.

Maybe they just want you to be unhappy (as the paradox of choice says, if you only had a few options for a product, you'd pick what you think is the best one and be happy with it; if you had hundreds, you can't compare all, so you'd pick one and wonder if it was the best choice).

Maybe Amazon knows that unsatisfied customers continue spending money... Hah, great dark pattern if so!

I have the same thing. For some it actually makes sense, like listening to a good song twice. But for many others it really doesn't. I'd kinda expect Youtube to be able to tell the difference between a song and some temporarily relevant vlog.

For music videos that makes sense, but not so much for other content.

This is Spotify and music recommendations for me.

I gave up on Spotify because Spotify, unlike me, was stuck in the 70's and 80's...

Yes, so irritating. I don't understand why they do this.

"deep learning"

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