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By what measure are you determining what YouTube content low quality and what is not? I just opened it up in incognito mode (IP located in California) and I se

By what measure are you determining what YouTube content low quality and what is not? I just opened it up in incognito mode (IP located in California) and I see the first 5 as: - Eminem music video - Gordon Ramsey - Jimmy Kimmel - 4 levels of onion rings - A couple building a shipping container home Nothing about these seems low-quality at all. Is it just because it's not that educational like software engineering and history?

martin_a 7y ago
Well, for Germany it's normally some rap songs (where views seem to be bought to push unknown artists), turkish soap operas and low quality circle-jerk clickbait where some Youtubers comment on what other Youtubers did. It's really a shame. These days there's some Covid 19 coverage in there, but that only slightly makes it better.
harikb 7y ago
I am not sure if incognito will help you avoid Geo and other non-cookie based personalization
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- hombre_fatal 7y ago
  I don't think there is non-cookie based personalization, just geo localization. Removing cookies makes this obvious: there isn't even a crumb of my recommended videos. Which makes sense because a list of trending content is a bit nonsensical without a region in mind, e.g. language.
fock 7y ago
In Europe, I get: a youtuber telling you about his "battle" with some other youtuber and how he converted him "back to islam, inshallah" (on tape obviously). Both people seem to have a problem with some body parts near their crotch, judging from their gestures. The same "environment" produced a mob of dozens of people, attacking each other in Berlin in broad daylight, because one guy claimed "Don't come to Berlin, it's my territory, you, who dared to tarnish my mothers honor in your vid". Basically it's tribalism 101 spread to thousands of people of general low education at an amazing rate. And thanks to the bubbles, we all know about, knowbody challenges this...
- tallyhotallyho 7y ago
  Yes, people seem to be taking against these mediums now that they are exposing the pitfalls of their own political delusions. Turns out multiculturalism was stupid thing to impose upon a country. Turns out immigration has negative effects. Turns out the "democratisation" of media means those people you thought you could ignore can not be ignored. Must be the website! stop it! regulate the website!
walshemj 7y ago
When I accidently went to YouTube with no history a while back it was all those out there ultra right wing (by American stdards as well ) conspiracy crap

martin_a 7y ago

Well, for Germany it's normally some rap songs (where views seem to be bought to push unknown artists), turkish soap operas and low quality circle-jerk clickbait where some Youtubers comment on what other Youtubers did. It's really a shame. These days there's some Covid 19 coverage in there, but that only slightly makes it better.

harikb 7y ago

I am not sure if incognito will help you avoid Geo and other non-cookie based personalization

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hombre_fatal 7y ago
I don't think there is non-cookie based personalization, just geo localization. Removing cookies makes this obvious: there isn't even a crumb of my recommended videos. Which makes sense because a list of trending content is a bit nonsensical without a region in mind, e.g. language.

fock 7y ago

In Europe, I get: a youtuber telling you about his "battle" with some other youtuber and how he converted him "back to islam, inshallah" (on tape obviously). Both people seem to have a problem with some body parts near their crotch, judging from their gestures. The same "environment" produced a mob of dozens of people, attacking each other in Berlin in broad daylight, because one guy claimed "Don't come to Berlin, it's my territory, you, who dared to tarnish my mothers honor in your vid". Basically it's tribalism 101 spread to thousands of people of general low education at an amazing rate. And thanks to the bubbles, we all know about, knowbody challenges this...

tallyhotallyho 7y ago
Yes, people seem to be taking against these mediums now that they are exposing the pitfalls of their own political delusions. Turns out multiculturalism was stupid thing to impose upon a country. Turns out immigration has negative effects. Turns out the "democratisation" of media means those people you thought you could ignore can not be ignored. Must be the website! stop it! regulate the website!

walshemj 7y ago

When I accidently went to YouTube with no history a while back it was all those out there ultra right wing (by American stdards as well ) conspiracy crap