>I stream YouTube in the background while working on projects around the house and I can't recall the last time I was recommended a strange video that was someh

>I stream YouTube in the background while working on projects around the house and I can't recall the last time I was recommended a strange video that was somehow policy-breaking. I have a fairly curated stream of videos due to years of Youtube use. I never see objectionable content in my recommended segment. I mostly have videos related to my career area and a few creators who focus on games I play. However, I've logged in on other computers, or via VPNs on different devices and found that if I just started with a random folksy video (let's say a bandsaw restoration), I would be recommended objectionable (overtly anti-black or anti-Semitic material) very rapidly. What's more, this random walk would then seed my recommended videos with a high proportion of similar videos. I'm not sure how much directed viewing would need to occur to re-adjust the recommendations. This was such a large issue that at certain offices I worked at, I'd pre-seed my youtube history with a few 'chill cafe background music' videos first to prevent a re-occurrence of the time when I walked away from my computer after logging onto a new terminal and opening up what I figured was some decent background noise, then coming back to a pro-hitler historical documentary. This may be because of my location, demographic, activity on the network or the selection of initial videos. My experience is nothing more than an anecdote, but it leads me to think that extreme content does well with respect to engagement, and accordingly is promoted by an engagement focused process. Is this correct? I don't know. I just know it isn't far fetched.