[jmsaucier]

One thing I've seen lately is that YouTube will recommend a video that I've already watched all of it. And they know I've watched it because I leave the watch history on and it has the red bar showing how far through the video i watch.

I also don't know if it's because of other users behaviors or maybe channels pay for the exposure, but I've seen certain channels or topics take over the recommendation list more than other topics. Or there's the issue where the recommendation list beside a video is all "recommended for you" and not even related to the video. On mobile they had to add a button for showing videos actually related to the video you're watching, but it feels like sometimes even that's hit or miss.

I'm okay with a recommendation engine when it doesnt get stuck in this loop of recommending the same videos over and over. For now, I just delete my YouTube history about once a month to get new recommended videos.

Part of this may be youtubes fight to subvert people leaving keywords in the descriptions of videos so instead they're analyzing different things trying to build the heuristic. I know there's a lot that goes into the engine so it could be any number of things.

[Avamander]

> And they know I've watched it because I leave the watch history on and it has the red bar showing how far through the video i watch.

Worse is when they wipe that red bar. It's amnesiac, just like Google Search and Chrome, those too forget older things. I personally find it very annoying.

[cuddlybacon]

> One thing I've seen lately is that YouTube will recommend a video that I've already watched all of it. And they know I've watched it because I leave the watch history on and it has the red bar showing how far through the video i watch.

This may surprise you, but if I like a video I'll watch it a few dozen times. I say this might surprise you since it certainly surprises my friends who make this complaint.

The accommodations the algorithms make for people like me is probably making it worse for people like you.

[nullandvoid]

Do you still get the same enjoyment out of a video 10 times on, serious question?

I'm the kind of person that can never watch a film twice within the same year (normally longer), same with series

[cuddlybacon]

The same enjoyment? No, of course not.

More enjoyment than anything else I can think to watch? All the time.

Funnily, for feature length films I can only watch them once every few years as well.