Google (and most tech companies) A/B Tests everything, aggressively, all the time. I've long since chalked up the bizarre, disparate experiences that people have with various aspects of youtube in the algorithm, automatic unsubs, ignoring your ignoring, pushing some content over others, to all point to them not having one 'Algorithm'. They seemingly have tens of them, being constantly tweaked and tested against various groups to see what kinds of impacts they have, and trying to drive the 'right' kind of engagement. Some of us probably get tagged for all kinds of dumb experimentation to see how they can influence habits and consumption patterns.
I definitely agree on the multiple algorithms thing, I don't know about youtube specifically but with Chrome they're pretty open about disparate experiences while testing new features. I'm just curious if, say, having a pre-GoogleTube account locks you into a non-shit/premium feature set because aside from occasional buffering issues (which hasn't been a problem in years) YouTube has always been a really good experience for me
I suspect it depends on the nature of your current engagement, and their current fixation. Like how they're pushing shorts really hard right now, and its getting annoying, because they want that infinite doomscrolling junk food content market. They also go back and forth between wanting and loathing long form content, or various 'advertiser friendly' measures. If your current consumption is considered 'good' by their old metrics, but not the new ones, you might just be consistently flagged as a control user, to measure other changes against.
It absolutely can be, its just a means of mass testing possible options for a change. If the change itself is good, some of the various A/B tests will be good as well. If the change is bad, not so much. And sometimes the change does get scrapped - Look back just a while ago when Youtube started trying to passively threaten adblock users, and had to hard walk it back pretending they totally never wanted to do so, because every variant they tried was receiving massive backlash. A/B testing in that case helps you confirm that its the idea that was bad, and not just a specific implementation of it.
That was a good bit
Lol, I was wondering about this guy's fate. He's like the guy that sent Jack Murphy that superchat - one little domino leading to an absolute implosion. He was probably no dumber than anyone else at LTT but I imagine Linus just couldn't look at him anymore without seething.
Just the other day I thought the milk has dried up (until Linus does something stupid again). This is fun
He's lucky Linus is a Canadian manlet cuck, he made him lost millions of dollars and caused irreversible brand damage.
I have Watch History turned off and get zero bullshit. No more soyface and other crap greeting me when I open youtube. Just a nice clean blank page with nothing but my subscriptions on the left.
It wasn't an LMG video but on of his "whales" at LTX. Even then Steve didn't say shit till linus ran his fuckin mouth on the WAN show. Still the BPD retard is the real reason this whole shitstorm imploded.
