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by eimrine 583 days ago
I suppose they do not have any metrics except what the user is actually seing. When I have understood this I have stopped watching some kind of videos I do not want to be spammed with in future. Also the following trick really helps to enhance the recommendation: watch these [1] videos in silent mode not for the sake of watching per se but for the sake of persuading the Algorythm that I am a science geek and not a tiktok teenager.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=youtube.com