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She's almost 70, spend all day watching q-anon style of videos (but in Spanish) and every day she's anguished about something new, last week was asking us to start digging a nuclear shelter because Russia was dropped a nuclear bomb over Ukraine. Before that she was begging us to install reinforced doors because the indigenous population were about to invade the cities and kill everyone with poisonous arrows. I have access to her YouTube account and I'm trying to unsubscribe and report the videos, but the reccomended videos keep feeding her more crazy shit.

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[-] Zellith@lemmy.fmhy.ml 42 points 1 year ago

Delete her youtube history entirely. Rebuild the search algo from scratch.

[-] RippleEffect@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

You can do this? I'm tempted to do it for myself.

[-] PlushySD@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Yup pretty easy too. I just checked on my mobile app this is how you do it

  • Click 'Library'
  • On your History section, click 'view all'
  • Then click the three dots upper right
  • Click 'clear all watch history'

You can also do this from the google history management page on the web but not sure the step tho.

[-] smcharles@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure about this tbh, I've had YouTube history disabled/cleared for years and it still recommends content that is relevant to things I've been watching. But maybe it at least can help?

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Yes. I’ve nuked my history once to start from a clean slate. Alternatively, you can also delete harmful videos from your history one by one, but that could take a while.

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