Then tell it you donât like those channels and thumbs down the short stuff you donât want, and thumbs up the long stuff you do.
Remove the âshortsâ section entirely (I know you can with vanced, forget about vanilla) if those are the 30 sec videos you mean. I hate them and ignore them entirely. Simple.
Itâs really not hard to get YouTube to be a pretty damn good recommendation engine. You just have to give it some constraints.
Do you actually tell it what you do and donât like? If it keeps recommending a channel you donât like, click the âno more from this channel,â or âdonât recommend things like thisâ or whatever those options are.
If you do that, as well as thumbs up/down, you get good recommendations. Really not very hard.
Hilariously, the data donât back them up, my wife does research on this very topic for a company. The dollar signs do though, they have to justify the property expenditures.
No. Thatâs sunk cost fallacy.
If theyâve already bought and paid for the buildings, they are not losing more money by not using them.
In fact, they probably save money on things like maintenance, overhead, security on physical sites when theyâre not being used. They could also be renting those spaces out, or straight up selling.
A lot of the development for Proton has also been community-based. Aside from whatever Steam has done to directly improve Proton, just creating the Steam Deck, and SteamOS has brought so much more attention and focus to improving it to an extent that probably wouldnât have happened otherwise. It gave people a reason to volunteer their time to improve it.
What kind of work do you think these kids are doing? Like are you picturing a 12 year old getting a leg-up on their adult âcompetitionâ because they started their career as a literal child?