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		rvba on April 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The man who killed Google Search? They probably optimize your engagement NOW - with clickbaity videos. So their KPIs show big increases. But in long term you realize that what you watch is garbage and stop watching alltogether. Someone probably changed the engine that shows videos for you - exactly as with search.

astrange on April 24, 2024 [–]

I have to say, all my YouTube recommendations are good and they're rarely clickbait. If you sign out they're pretty bad though.

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