I added a whole bunch of stuff to Watch Later last week because, obvs., I wanted to watch them later. Since then, those exact same videos have been front and centre every day in the "FOR YOU" list. I mean, well done, I guess, for thinking I might want to watch videos I've specifically indicated I want to watch?
This infuriates me. I know the video exists, that’s why it’s on my watch later.
It’s like adding an item to your cart, and then having an ad for it at the top of every search result.
Another thing I hate is if you watch a video from a playlist (or the “podcasts” tab on a channel), and go into your watch history to continue the video, you can’t. It just shows a link to the entire playlist
I on the other hand wish it would do that more often.
When I open YouTube I’m always distracted by the recommendations on the initial screen, and then I never get around to the Watch Later list. So it’s nice when Watch Later videos show up on the initial screen.
I wish I could tell it to consistently show me one or two Watch Later videos on the initial screen rather than doing so seemingly at random.
> I wish I could tell it to consistently show me one or two Watch Later videos
I would be 100% A-OK with that if it had its own section. Like there's a "News" section if I scroll down a few rows. Put "You wanted to watch these later" down there as well. Absolutely do not put them in suggestions though.
One rationale could be that people commonly fill up their "Watch Later" lists with hundreds of videos which they do find interesting, but ultimately forget about and never watch.
Yep, definitely because I'm doing the same. But don't put them in the "recommended" section - I've already accepted that I want to watch them! Put them in their own "You may have forgotten..." section.
Hey, YouTube is only trying to be helpful! It knows that a half-life of a video is about 5 years - every YT video will eventually decay into error message, via one of many phenomena identified by experimental SaaSysicists, such as "geo-block decay" (and its special form, "Germany block decay"), "spontaneous demonetization", "spurious content-ID block", "channel-ban induced cascade", or "Decay Measurement Cascade Anomaly" aka. "DMCA". So it really just wants to make sure you'll watch the video before it's too late!
