• @[email protected]
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    4113 days ago

    I’m certain my YouTube feed is trying to radicalize me into some kind of culture warrior. It’s really annoying. I deleted all of my watch history to try and reset it and it just got way worse real quick. I watch one stupid video, now all I see are angry tubers upset that people don’t think exactly like they do and enjoy things they don’t. Then they convince themselves they’re more enlightened than anyone else because they make this content and ban anyone who makes fun of them, all while claiming to be “free speech advocates” of course.

    YouTube got bad so fast it’s left my head spinning.

    • @[email protected]
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      2313 days ago

      Have you tried clicking the 3 dots on these outrage videos and selecting “don’t recommend channel” or a mix of that and “not interested?” I started to see a bunch of right wing political trash in my feed a while back since a lot of my watched videos could be considered adjacent (cars/trucks/offroading/home improvement/dash cam vids/etc) to what these people like and I haven’t really had this issue again.

      • @[email protected]
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        3013 days ago

        It’s wild that right wingers are always complaining about big tech censoring them when YouTube and Facebook are pushing far-right content so much

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          It’s wild that right wingers are always complaining about big tech censoring them when YouTube and Facebook are pushing far-right content so much

          I’ve got a conspiracy theory about this:

          1. Everyone likes kittens.
          2. Some of us who like kittens think about how to act decently to each-other, some of the time.

          Leading to:

          1. Right wingers who like kittens will sometimes see something “woke” in their algorithm feed, and they feel attacked.
        • @[email protected]
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          1013 days ago

          They still think that YouTube and Facebook are representative of the average person. They don’t understand how incredible curated those feeds are. I think that’s where some of the “silent majority” mythos comes from. Everything they see is people agreeing with them, therefore it’s impossible that Joe Biden got more votes in 2020.

      • @Jiggle_Physics
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        413 days ago

        I have done this. I have told them not to post me shit from channels, and topics, over, and over. Best it seems it can go is like 2 months. When I tried deleting my history, and turning it off, it got SO MUCH WORSE. Even making a new account was orders of magnitude worse. As sad as it is, I am actually getting a better result… I have long been at the point where I do not click on things I am not familiar with, or without suggestion from a trusted source. So I just don’t look at recommended anymore. Just look for the indicator of new stuff from my subs, or look at things I specifically search for.

    • @Jyrdano
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      1212 days ago

      Yup, last week Ive clicked on a YT video of certain game, shut it down about 1 minute in after realising it was just another rage-baiting angry youtuber lamenting how the game is too woke. Now all I get is recommendations of angry anti-woke youtube videos bashing the game I actually enjoy.

      • @Renacles
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        312 days ago

        Veilguard? I keep blocking those channels.

        • @Jyrdano
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          312 days ago

          Yeah, I was being vague to derailing this thread off topic too much.

    • Fleppensteyn
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      712 days ago

      I started with a clean profile: I never log in to YT so it’s just using a local cookie you can always clear to start over.

      Anyways, I just searched a few sciencey things to feed the algorithm and now I’m getting loads of crazy fake “science” and conspiracies and the rest is all extremist right wing bullshit.

      YouTube is getting useless.

    • @thedirtyknapkin
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      513 days ago

      you can turn off watch history all together and it will just give you generic related videos on the side.

    • Ephera
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      213 days ago

      If you want it to just not recommend things, you might prefer switching to an RSS feed, or to something like NewPipe.