Current Events > Why does YouTube keep recommending me videos I've already watched?

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It's getting ridiculous. They used to only show up occasionally in the recommended section, and I always just passed it off as a weird glitch in their system. Not a big deal.

But lately it's been happening constantly. Like if I hit refresh, there's almost guaranteed to be at least 1 video in the first 20 recommendations that I've already watched. Usually more. And I'm not talking about having watched them on another account or anything understandable like that. I mean the video even has the red progress bar on the bottom of the thumbnail showing how much of the video I watched. And when you hit the little drop down, select "Not interested", and click on "Tell us why" the first option is always "I've already watched this video." Why is that even an option?? If I've already watched it, and you know I've already watched it...don't fucking show it to me again! What the fuck, YouTube?!?

But just now, the most ridiculous thing happened. I saw a video in the recommended, watched it, then clicked back to the home page...and that same fucking video I literally just finished watching was the very first fucking recommendation. This is getting asinine.

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I assumed it was a music thing "Wanna listen to this one again?" since those are the videos that do the craziest numbers and inevitably get a lot of rewatches.
Maybe it's the algorithm trying to sort out what precisely people will and will not want to watch again.

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So what you're saying is that its recommending you a video that you would definitely be interested in? Damn, the YouTube algorithm sure is impressive

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