Everyone knows that’s what they do. And that’s why they continue doing it that way. It’s a way to say, “There’s nothing you can do to stop me, now shut up and obey.”
I remember I used to have an add-on (at least I think it was an add-on; didn’t Spotify officially support those at some point?) that synced the lyrics of a song to the timestamp. It used user submissions to figure out the timestamps and edit the lyrics. It was pretty cool.
having to sift through the site, fighting against the algorithm’s sorting to find something you like is hard.
This has been me since… sometime in 2019, I believe. At some point around then, there was a very noticeable change in the videos being suggested to me. I noticed it almost immediately.