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267 points

It’s already really difficult to engage with the content you want to see, but now they’re also taking away the only immediately noticeable metric of a successful video? Genuinely just why

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They removed the star system a long time ago. They removed the down votes again a few years back.

They want their algorithm to be the only thing that decides whether you watch a video or not.

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148 points

That’ll work excellent for all those people trying to find tutorial videos for ‘XYZ’ when you have no verification data to determine whether it’s even a legit tutorial.

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73 points

People who watch tutorial videos only get on, watch the video and then leave. How are they supposed to make tons of advertising revenue from that? No, we must sacrifice that class of video from the platform, in pursuit of the almighty dollar.

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To be fair, the star system was garbage. I agree with the rest though

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38 points

Too hard to manipulate the algorithm with ai spam, disguised ads and propaganda if users can see all the videos at the top of their recommended feed have 20 views.

You must only view what the Corporation approves.

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To hope you find new content. YouTube had been putting random low watch count videos in my feed. I never click on them because of their low view count. The thumbsnails make them look like they’re high quality videos. Without the view count I have no idea if they have 1,000 views or millions. They’re hoping I will click on them, subscribe, and spend more time in the app.

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some internal metric and testing said this increases engagement by 2.1% so now we are stuck with it.

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I’m curious how this will affect things like sub-a-thons where people stream for charity and so on.

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The data will have to be there for sorting reasons and such, so this is just an extra nod to using an app like Grayjay, which will almost assuredly still pull the data and display it for you to see.

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17 points

They want to decide what you like and don’t like. You WILL watch what THEY show you.

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3 points

Personally I find the highest viewed videos on YT to be the absolute shittiest ones.

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Yeah, that’s kinda the problem too

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