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[wiseowise]

So this is the reason YouTube started going downhill around 2015, Albert stopped working on it!

(It’s a joke, I know YouTube started going downhill the moment they’ve decided to squeeze every penny out of it)

E: do you happen to know by any chance why algorithm for recommendation become so shit?

[moralestapia → wiseowise]

I have an ad blocker, so they decided to "punish" me by not showing me recommended videos anymore. It was a blessing!

[sambazi → moralestapia]

also with adblocker but i do get recommendations, though the quality/relatedness has gone downhill.

i suspect privacy legislation and this cohort thing to be at the bottom of this

[AlbertCory → wiseowise]

Never said I "worked on it."