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I can confirm this. I saw a lot of region-based, really stereotyping videos when I got a new computer and visited YouTube. While I understand they need to fill

I can confirm this. I saw a lot of region-based, really stereotyping videos when I got a new computer and visited YouTube. While I understand they need to fill up the home page with something, I just prefer they can be a little more creative about the whole thing. After glancing through the top few, I quickly went for the search box. To their credit, once I do a few searches, the recommendations drastically improved when visiting next time. A side effect of this, of course, is that you can study all kinds of stereotyping and biases by repeating my experiment in various regions I suppose.

genofon 10y ago
if they don't have any good information about you other than your location what else would you recommend rather than the most popular in that location?
- Ntrails 10y ago
  When you lack the information to make a good recommendation, "the best we can guess from really generic or sparse information" tends to be annoying. That's really bad. Yes, I watched a bunch of Dota replays during a recent tournament. No, I don't normally go on youtube. So I watched a daily show video clip that was linked. All my "watch next" and "recommended" are Dota. That's not smart, that's aggravating. I would have been ok watching a couple more ds clips, but instead exclusively bad recommendations were made based on poor data. I dislike the idea that my world gets filtered by algorithms, but I really hate when they're obviously bad at it. Although I suppose I should be grateful that it's easily spotted when it's bad?