I like that idea of tracking watch time for recommendations! And yes, I could see how that can be challenging with the preroll ads.
One of the worst recent changes on YT is them not ordering your Subscription videos by date anymore. So with my custom scripts, YT wasn't registering that I was "watching" videos so I recently had to modify the script to programmatically open this 3-dot menu then click hide:
Some might balk at all this overhead but YT is probably my most visited site so for me it's worth it to keep trying to tweak things. Plus it can be kind of satisfying sometimes :)
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I like that idea of tracking watch time for recommendations! And yes, I could see how that can be challenging with the preroll ads.
One of the worst recent changes on YT is them not ordering your Subscription videos by date anymore. So with my custom scripts, YT wasn't registering that I was "watching" videos so I recently had to modify the script to programmatically open this 3-dot menu then click hide:
Some might balk at all this overhead but YT is probably my most visited site so for me it's worth it to keep trying to tweak things. Plus it can be kind of satisfying sometimes :)