- cross-posted to:
- android@lemdro.id
- cross-posted to:
- android@lemdro.id
- YouTube is testing a new video button on its app, allowing users to easily access random Shorts content based on their suggestions.
- Additional features of this play button are currently unknown, but it is likely to pull content based on watch history, subscribed creators, and video likes.
- The feature is being tested with a limited number of people and does not appear to be part of an official YouTube experiment.
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I’m at the stage now where I view everything Google does with great cynicism and suspicion.
And it’s fairly obvious how that would work here. The videos won’t be “random”, they’ll specifically be videos that are known to keep people on the platform longer.
A “gimme a discount facebook feed” if you will.
“random” videos
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Name a better duo than tech compaines and repackaging old features to sell them as “new”
Google and killing products
Microsoft and a bizarre amount of backwards compatibility
Backwards compatibility does have it’s merit. Windows at least tries to make shit from the XP era work all the way up to 11. I’ve had some big headaches because some system decided to throw backwards compatibility out the fucking windows and break tons of scripts I had.
The day I have so little will to get off my ass that I need to hit a button made by youtube to force feed me random entertainment is the day someone needs to forcibly take my internet connection away from me.
It’s a brave new world with new consumers and addictions
It’s just a Skinner’s Box for rats but for teens
Skinner Box For Teens is a good band name.
That also describes Tiktok now, I think?
Graphic design is my passionINTO IT
Too drunk right now or I’d shop in a small hand holding a cellphone with a tiktok logo on the sceen bumping into a big red button that says “DOPAMINE” above it. Maybe tomorrow.
I think Teen Skinner Box works a bit better.
Respect, but I like the verboseness of Skinner box for Teens. It starts with a concept that folks should know, and ends with leaving you thinking: “what’s a Skinner box for teens?” I automatically go with tiktok now, musical.ly before, vine beforefore, and when I was younger I would have said MySpace or AOL teen chat.
The Pirate Bay did this with the “I’m feeling lucky” button, how many years ago?
Aren’t shorts random already? What a useless feature
I feel the same. It will probably be more random than shorts in which the algorithm decides what to give you.
their search function also returns primarily random, unrelated videos… I think they just don’t like people deciding what they look at
They can control your watch time better if you make less decisions. Just be a good little brainless consumer and scroll through endless amounts of bullshit instead of specifically finding one video, then doing something else.
It started with autoplay, wormed it’s way into search feature, and now it’s all over home and subscriptions.
Random? Yeah, I don’t think so. I’ve seen the absolute garbage YT’s algorithm tries to smear in front of my eyes - I enter YT through a bookmark so I can avoid having to see that crap.
So only shorts are delivered? Who not “normal” videos as well/instead?
Maybe because shorts are short and un-seekable, so more “engagement”.
What’s un-seekable
You can’t skip parts of the video or go back to a part you want to see again. You have to watch the whole thing.
I really wish YouTube would quit trying to make shorts happen.
Fail #1, you downloaded the YouTube App.
Choose a different front end or use a desktop.
