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Six or seven months ago I bought a Smart TV for the first time. Since then I have started watching a lot of Youtube content because it is so easy. I had built up a load of subscribed channels, and was getting a lot of relevant recommendations based on my past history. Last night before I went to bed the Youtube app started hanging. My internet was OK. I checked whether there was an update, which the was, so updated. The problem persisted. Cleared all the updates, which also included my whole watch history and subscribed channels and still the same. I assumed it was then a Youtube problem, and went to bed, and when I came home today all seemed to be working.
Now I am trying to remember all my subscribed channels by searching for the channel, start watching a vid, pausing it, and the subscribing, then stopping the vid because I had seen it before. Now, here is the odd bit, I have just gone into the history, so the videos I had watched since the reset, and there are seven videos there. Three of them I actually watched, and four that I have not. The three of the four that I have not watched are by a chap called Casey Neistat, in fact two by him, and another by Marques Brownlee, but he was the subject of the video, and the other vid by Luminous Landscape. I had looked at a video by Casey Neistat a few months ago as he had been mentioned in a thread, so had a look. I didn't like him, or his video and so have not looked at any of his vids again. Not sure if I had looked at a Luminous Landscape vid at some point. But in my history last night there was nothing, and suddenly four vids that I am 100% sure that I have not watched. I am the only person who uses this TV btw.
How have three Casey Neistat videos appeared in my history since last night when I have only ever looked at one of his videos ever? The app is set up not to auto play the next video. I see from the info below each thumbnail that each video has millions of views! Has he found some way to make it appear that his videos are being watched when they are not? It could explain why a video about the greatest compact camera has 1.3m views, and a video about his studio has 4.2m views.
Six or seven months ago I bought a Smart TV for the first time. Since then I have started watching a lot of Youtube content because it is so easy. I had built up a load of subscribed channels, and was getting a lot of relevant recommendations based on my past history. Last night before I went to bed the Youtube app started hanging. My internet was OK. I checked whether there was an update, which the was, so updated. The problem persisted. Cleared all the updates, which also included my whole watch history and subscribed channels and still the same. I assumed it was then a Youtube problem, and went to bed, and when I came home today all seemed to be working.
Now I am trying to remember all my subscribed channels by searching for the channel, start watching a vid, pausing it, and the subscribing, then stopping the vid because I had seen it before. Now, here is the odd bit, I have just gone into the history, so the videos I had watched since the reset, and there are seven videos there. Three of them I actually watched, and four that I have not. The three of the four that I have not watched are by a chap called Casey Neistat, in fact two by him, and another by Marques Brownlee, but he was the subject of the video, and the other vid by Luminous Landscape. I had looked at a video by Casey Neistat a few months ago as he had been mentioned in a thread, so had a look. I didn't like him, or his video and so have not looked at any of his vids again. Not sure if I had looked at a Luminous Landscape vid at some point. But in my history last night there was nothing, and suddenly four vids that I am 100% sure that I have not watched. I am the only person who uses this TV btw.
How have three Casey Neistat videos appeared in my history since last night when I have only ever looked at one of his videos ever? The app is set up not to auto play the next video. I see from the info below each thumbnail that each video has millions of views! Has he found some way to make it appear that his videos are being watched when they are not? It could explain why a video about the greatest compact camera has 1.3m views, and a video about his studio has 4.2m views.