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by antif 2643 days ago
That 1-10 seems impossible to gauge correctly without just basing it on the profiles of a video's previous viewers.

And the crux seems to be that YouTube has a single primary interest in generating suggestions: to offer the viewer a video that they probably want to see next. Netflix recs are no different.

So, the impolite or gruesome content becomes clickbait for an ad revenue machine.