YouTube is fixing homepage recommendation issue after acknowledging ‘something weird is up’
If recommendations on YouTube’s homepage seemed a little off these past few days, that’s because something weird was definitely happening, according to the company.
YouTube’s product team responded to one of many threads on a popular YouTube subreddit where people were complaining about the recommended videos being offered to them on the main homepage. Videos from five or six years ago littered the homepage, alongside gaming live streams. A YouTube representative responded to complaints in a thread, acknowledging that something strange had occurred and a fix was being implemented.
“Just confirming that YouTube is aware of this thread and looking into it — we do think something weird is up,” a YouTube community manager wrote on Reddit.
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