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Consideration: Address YouTube's Autoplay behavior

Open f00lishMan opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments
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If a user has autoplay on, and they choose to watch videos by another user on autoplay, and that creator is tagged or marked or on some kind of list, YouTube will do everything it can to autoplay into a prioritized video. This is especially true for users with videos discussing political matters.

Even if the user explicitly selects "Not Interested" for the video marked "Up Next", and even if a video from the marked user moves into the "Up Next" slot, once the playing video ends, it will still autoplay into a completely different video, despite what is listed in the "Up Next" slot.

Even if YouTube's prioritized recommendations are blocked or hidden, is there a way this extension could prevent that kind of behavior in the future?

f00lishMan avatar Feb 15 '20 03:02 f00lishMan

there may be a way to do this, but i am unsure at the moment. will leave this open for consideration later on

miscavage avatar Feb 15 '20 20:02 miscavage