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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
Leading to:
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.
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.
All I get recommended are craft and history videos.
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If you want it to just not recommend things, you might prefer switching to an RSS feed, or to something like NewPipe.