I feel like this might be intentional to a certain degree, at least on YouTube or Facebook.

If you switched off the app while looking at a certain post or watching a certain video, that's a negative engagement indicator, so the app wants to throw you back into the algorithmic feed to show you something new instead.

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mcdeltat 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Conveniently, if you're watching a youtube video with an ad, switch apps and youtube reloads, you have to watch the ad again

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ssl-3 4 hours ago | parent [-]

You guys have ads on youtube?

	▲	alpaca128 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Ad blockers don't work anymore, at least not with the version YT serves me. If it thinks that I have an ad blocker active (false positives happen too), it will only show a black rectangle and not even load the comments.
	▲	recursive 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It's more common than you might think.
	▲	juanani an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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