YouTube's Algorithmic Shift: From Addictive to Tedious

YouTube once thrived on a subscription-based recommendation system, offering relevant and engaging content that kept users hooked. However, the introduction of algorithmic recommendations, while initially providing an illusion of infinite content, ultimately led to repetitive and unpersonalized suggestions, leaving users feeling bored. Now, YouTube's homepage recycles a small number of videos, and search results prioritize videos from channels the user has interacted with, neglecting actual relevance and mixing in unrelated recommendations and Shorts. It feels like a deliberate effort to make the platform less engaging. This shift might be Google's intentional move to reduce YouTube's addictive nature.