YouTube is testing a mystery button that starts playing random videos

Salamendacious@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 73 points –
androidpolice.com
  • YouTube is testing a new video button on its app, allowing users to easily access random Shorts content based on their suggestions.
  • Additional features of this play button are currently unknown, but it is likely to pull content based on watch history, subscribed creators, and video likes.
  • The feature is being tested with a limited number of people and does not appear to be part of an official YouTube experiment.
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I'm at the stage now where I view everything Google does with great cynicism and suspicion.

And it's fairly obvious how that would work here. The videos won't be "random", they'll specifically be videos that are known to keep people on the platform longer.