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What is the purpose of that algorithm. I think YouTube’s algorithm purpose is to keep people engaged. The ethical algorithm would only suggest content user is interested in or may be interested based on interests of other users with similar subscriptions.


YouTube mostly suggests videos related to other videos I've watched or to my subscriptions.

So it already works like this for me.

It almost never suggests random crap. I'd be hard pressed to come up with an example where I was puzzled or infuriated by one of YT's suggestions...

(Facebook and Reddit, on the other hand, are way more random and infuriating).




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