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Why is youtube recommending conservative "talking points" to me? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by V01t45@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Hi, I am a guy in early thirties with a wife and two kids and whenever I go on youtube it always suggests conservative things like guys dunking on women, ben shapiro reacting to some bullshit, joe rogan, all the works. I almost never allow it to go to that type of video and when I do it is either by accident or by curiosity. My interest are gaming, standup comedy, memes, react videos, metalurgy, machining, blacksmithing, with occasional songs and videos about funny bullshit and I am not from america and I consider myself pretty liberal if I had to put it into terms used in america. But european liberal, so by american standards a socialist. Why does it recommend this shit to me, is this some kind of vector for radicalization of guys in my category? Do you have similar experience?

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[–] whodoctor11@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Man I would turn off the activity collect and erase it's history in myaccount.google.com, besides do the same thing with anything else, like YouTube history. Bad things still show up, but you receive more things related to your subscriptions. When you receive bad things just hit the three points and go to "Don't recommend this channel" (for me is more effective than "Don't recommend content like that").

That's a very common YouTube complain and have a simple explanation: this alt-right folks are the top adversities on social media. They pay millions to Google to do this.

[–] ablackcatstail@lemmy.goblackcat.com 1 points 2 years ago

I am guessing you probably viewed enough of these videos that YouTube's dumb algorithm is like, "Oh hey @V01t45@lemmy.fmhy.ml wants to see right wing stuff so let's show him that." I agree that it is very annoying. This is why we need to rally behind starting to use PeerTube and cancelling YouTube.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

My YouTube recommendations are usually spot on, but I do get Joe Rogan videos sometimes. I could see people sliding into radicalizing garbage easily from there. Rogan's so big that he gets cool guests, but they're wasted on him as a host.

[–] eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Even if you watch leftwing videos sometimes YouTube just goes "oh you're a young-ish male who's into politics? Here's som nazi vids you'll like." ESPECIALLY if the leftwing videos talk about righty's.

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Social Media in general has that habit of furthered spreading far right content and dragging people into such content bubbles.

[–] kemsat@lemmy.tf 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Conspiracy theory: All the corps are working together to push the global politics to the right, because leftists dgaf about taking money from corps (as in they’ll tax the corps & the rich).

[–] MelonTheMan@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

It's not a conspiracy theory if it's obviously true

[–] A55A@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Just use Odysee, the YouTube algorithm is fully cooked from millions of hours of pure crap being posted every day.

[–] CynicalStoic@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What state do you live in?

I know I’m doing good WHEN I get served this kind of content. I don’t browse YT logged in, my browser always deletes cookies upon closure, and I run Ghostery/add block plugins.

Living in Texas, I kinda assume that is why I constantly get this right wing content (ads, vid recommendations). I figure my location is all they know about me and so that is why I get served this content.

It just tells me they don’t know anything about me so my countermeasures are working 🤞🏼

[–] tinwhiskers@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He said not from America.

[–] CynicalStoic@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Oh you’re right, totally missed that

[–] notenoughbutter@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

you can try getting another advertisement I'd

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