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>>jayden+(OP)
I always laugh at these shots from the hip criticizing YouTube and Google. As though Google doesn't have a entire team of data scientists and top tier engineers managing this experiment and driving it to optimal results. (Spoiler: they do)

If you don't like the service, you can stop using it. And if you do, they have already factored that into their metrics guardrail, and it was the right decision.

>>pizzat+md
The flaw with this angle is that their success can be attributed to momentum rather than any good decision-making. They have no real competition for long-form video content. If they make a terrible decision, they can still be successful as their market has nowhere else to go to.

That is to say that "If you don't like the service, you can stop using it" isn't really true if you want to watch long-form videos on the internet. There isn't an alternative.