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This sounds a lot like you don't use YouTube at all, as I've not seen auto-generated kids videos or content farm trash in a long time, and YouTube is my primary

• dathinab 5y ago
  Yay, content personalization works. But putting that aside from a person using YT often from incognito mode and similar: - there is a overlap between "content farm trash" and "entertainment visdeos" what you might seem as "content trash" other might see as "short simple entertainment". - there is a lot of educational content on YT, sadly it is often not featured that much on a "incognito" front page - there is a lot of entertainment content with a bit of educational content on it. - there is even more purely entertainment content on it - there is questionable kids content on it (but YT explicitly split out YT Kids because it (at least officially) doesn't want kids on the normal YT (kids != teens/young adults) - there is questionable "content farm trash" it also tries most to "play to algorithm" so it might seem that there is a lot of it when you visit YT in incognito mode/without personalized YT preferences. But it's not what keeps the platform alive. - there is a lot of TV content on it (at least in some countries) (e.g. a recordings of TV news programs uploaded by the TV channels which produced it). - there is quite a bit of serious content, discussions, etc. on it sadly mostly demonetized. - there is a bit of more then just a bit of very very wrong and misleading content on it. Or in other words YT is a platform for all content, from extremely serious discussions over good entertainment, grate educational material to pointless 5 minute craft videos and ending with conspiracy theories.