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I literally never get such content and I use YouTube constantly. I'm not sure how much I'd blame youtube for showing similar content to whatever people are alre

by Tenoke 5y ago

I literally never get such content and I use YouTube constantly. I'm not sure how much I'd blame youtube for showing similar content to whatever people are already watching.

codemusings 5y ago
I think the trick is also to watch pontential extreme videos linked from some place else in private mode so that your feed doesn't get messed up. But yeah I'd second that. My feed is mostly video games, music & crafting which fits my interests pretty well. I don't get any political or violent content suggested at all. I also wonder how much this gets influenced by tracking data gathered outside of YouTube.
- Tenoke 5y ago
  >I also wonder how much this gets influenced by tracking data gathered outside of YouTube. I think not at all given what I see in incognito/secondary google account and that I dont see any of my interests which I havent watched much about on youtube recommended - e.g. no programming stuff and I'm sure there's a ton of tracking data outside of youtube suggesting I'm interested in that.
wodenokoto 5y ago
As far as I can tell, simply watching news is enough to get entangled with the loonies.
- krapp 5y ago
  On the contrary, the loonies are the ones who refuse to watch the news because they believe it's controlled by evil Marxist puppetmasters, while believing anything Youtube, Twitter or Facebook tell them. As bad as the news gets, it isn't going to tell you Bill Gates is putting mind-control chips into COVID vaccines, or that the Presidential election was stolen by a conspiracy of Chinese communists and Democratic party pedophile cultists, or that Jewish space lasers are responsible for forest fires. It may report on those beliefs and their effects elsewhere, but unlike the internet, won't assert them as fact, or let you form a comfortable bubble of alternate reality around yourself where those beliefs are only ever reinforced, but never questioned.
  - wodenokoto 5y ago
    They are also the ones brigading the comment section on news segments.
    - krapp 5y ago
      Yeah, Hacker News is starting to become as allergic to nuance as it is to humor.
swiley 5y ago
I prefer to use YouTube in private mode so the ML doesn't pigeonhole you. It only takes a few videos for it to "decide what you like" and so you can pretty easily convince it to feed you weird stuff like this if you want.

by Tenoke 5y ago

I literally never get such content and I use YouTube constantly. I'm not sure how much I'd blame youtube for showing similar content to whatever people are already watching.

codemusings 5y ago

I think the trick is also to watch pontential extreme videos linked from some place else in private mode so that your feed doesn't get messed up. But yeah I'd second that. My feed is mostly video games, music & crafting which fits my interests pretty well. I don't get any political or violent content suggested at all. I also wonder how much this gets influenced by tracking data gathered outside of YouTube.

Tenoke 5y ago
>I also wonder how much this gets influenced by tracking data gathered outside of YouTube. I think not at all given what I see in incognito/secondary google account and that I dont see any of my interests which I havent watched much about on youtube recommended - e.g. no programming stuff and I'm sure there's a ton of tracking data outside of youtube suggesting I'm interested in that.

wodenokoto 5y ago

As far as I can tell, simply watching news is enough to get entangled with the loonies.

krapp 5y ago
On the contrary, the loonies are the ones who refuse to watch the news because they believe it's controlled by evil Marxist puppetmasters, while believing anything Youtube, Twitter or Facebook tell them. As bad as the news gets, it isn't going to tell you Bill Gates is putting mind-control chips into COVID vaccines, or that the Presidential election was stolen by a conspiracy of Chinese communists and Democratic party pedophile cultists, or that Jewish space lasers are responsible for forest fires. It may report on those beliefs and their effects elsewhere, but unlike the internet, won't assert them as fact, or let you form a comfortable bubble of alternate reality around yourself where those beliefs are only ever reinforced, but never questioned.
- wodenokoto 5y ago
  They are also the ones brigading the comment section on news segments.
  - krapp 5y ago
    Yeah, Hacker News is starting to become as allergic to nuance as it is to humor.

swiley 5y ago

I prefer to use YouTube in private mode so the ML doesn't pigeonhole you. It only takes a few videos for it to "decide what you like" and so you can pretty easily convince it to feed you weird stuff like this if you want.