[HN Gopher] Show HN: Unofficial YouTube Wrapped 2023, see top cr...
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       Show HN: Unofficial YouTube Wrapped 2023, see top creators and
       watching habits
        
       Author : eightants
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2023-12-01 18:26 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | tasoeur wrote:
       | Pretty cool! Your project also made me genuinely miss the yearly
       | tradition of YouTube rewind. Too bad it got cancelled
       | indefinitely.
        
         | j-bos wrote:
         | It was fun to watch, but became more and more plastic over
         | time. Excluding the clip show one.
        
       | __rito__ wrote:
       | Cool.
       | 
       | Really liked it.
        
       | nickthegreek wrote:
       | Love that 3rd button to get a preview.
        
       | spuz wrote:
       | When I upload my watch-history.json, I very breifly see an error
       | saying something like "No creators found". My json file looks
       | fine to me.
        
       | root_axis wrote:
       | Broken. "No creators found"
        
       | dylan604 wrote:
       | While this is a fun and interesting way to see what you've
       | watched for your personal amusement and even sharing if you so
       | choose, what else could be done...?
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       | I'm curious if the general public would react if a tool like this
       | took it further to then show you the analysis that targeting
       | advertisers can use based on these metrics. Obviously, this isn't
       | the entire set of data used, but it would show a great deal of
       | the "logic".
       | 
       | Or, would it be possible to create an alternate suggestion algo
       | than YT's? The algo would be based less on ad sales or
       | engagement, but proper suggestions based on similarity to what
       | you were watching. Allow the user to then start tweaking the
       | suggestions then and there with buttons that
       | encouraged/discouraged similar content in the suggestions and
       | other types of things that YT will never allow. Is that even
       | something people would do? I'm guessing yes if people are willing
       | to download/upload this data just to get a summary that's not
       | directly beneficial to finding more content. <shrugs>
        
       | TheAceOfHearts wrote:
       | Great concept, although I'm hesitant to share my watch history
       | with a third party just for a review.
       | 
       | Even Twitch has their own Wrapped! Why doesn't YouTube have an
       | official one as well? We all know they're tracking this data
       | anyway. It really baffles me that YouTube is leaving any kind of
       | celebration of community on the table without acknowledgement,
       | especially after killing Rewind.
        
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