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Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole | The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that::The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.

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[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 100 points 1 year ago

Weird. Youtube keeps recommending right wing videos even though I've purged them from my watch history and always selected Not Interested. It got to the point that I installed a 3rd party channel blocker.

I don't even watch too many left leaning political videos and even those are just tangentially political.

[-] spacebirb@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I know everyone likes to be conspiracy on this but it's really just trying to get your attention any way possible. There's more right wing popular political videos, so the algorithm is more likely to suggest them. These videos also get lots of views so again, more likely to be suggested.

Just ignore them and watch what you like

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've already said I installed a channel blocker to deal with the problem, but it's still annoying that a computer has me in their database as liking right wing shit. If it was limited to just youtube recommendations, it would be nothing, but we're on a slow burn to a dystopian hell. Google has no reason not to use their personality profile of me elsewhere.

I made this comment elsewhere, but I have a very liberal friend who's German, likes German food, and is into wwii era history. Facebook was suggesting neo-nazi groups to him.

I watch a little flashgitz and now I'm being recommended FreedomToons. I get that's some people that like flashgitz are going to be terrible, but I shouldn't have to click Not Interested more then once.

[-] artic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

What are you using to block channel's ?

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blocktube/

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