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by jstanley 2594 days ago
It was about YouTube, not Spotify. YouTube will happily put you in an autoplay recommendation loop, cycling back and forth between the same 2 or 3 songs.
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That certainly has not been my experience for music on Youtube; for the most part, it's very much in line with stuff I'd want to be listening to.

I can't say the same for "Content" trash like "Bill Burr destroys feminism" and "Louis CK owns Parkland kids", because those do repeat heavily. Absurd recommendations when you consider that my view history in the comedy arena are Eddie Griffin and Dave Chappelle, two old-school comics who did not make their name off of culture-war "controversies".

Can't confirm. They always recommend me new stuff, never stuff I've already seen. And I watch a lot of YouTube (too much...)
I wonder what the difference is between viewers - I end up in view loops as the previous poster, where I'm recommended the same stuff over and over.