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Yt is ridiculously addictive. They seem to recommend just the right thing to “okay lets watch this one last video” wasting hours of my day.
by faeyanpiraat 5y ago
Yt is ridiculously addictive.
They seem to recommend just the right thing to “okay lets watch this one last video” wasting hours of my day.
- sva_ 5y agoWeird, the algorithm usually gives me crap, and I rarely click the recommendations. Perhaps because I didn't 'train' it.
- rgoulter 5y agoOverall I don't find YT too addicting. - I think several different websites can substitute for "I'm bored, what's in the fridge?". Though, I did have to manually ignore a bunch of clips-from-tv -shows type channels.
- faeyanpiraat 5y agoI've trained it for 7 years, it knows me better than my parents.
- hoseja 5y agoWorst part, it's actually objectively good content in large part, as far as I am able to tell.
- jl6 5y agoContent addicts need to realize that there is more objectively good content out there than they are physically capable of consuming in one lifetime. Therefore the question to ask is how much of your life do you want to spend on content consumption.
- beckman466 5y agoSame, I watch mostly leftist and socialist content and the algorithm suggests utter shit.
- andrepd 5y agoDon't worry, as soon as you watch 1 video from an alt-right channel your feed will be inundated with far-right content.
- andrepd 5y agoWhat's stunning to me is the ease with which it gives me fringe content. Example: I searched for a funny 20s clip of our President of the Republic, instantly the recommendations were filled with propaganda from the local right-populist party's yt channel.
- NoGravitas 5y agoThe YouTube algorithm is well-known for channeling people towards extremist political content. Mostly far-right-wing, though I imagine you could seed it to throw you down a left-wing rabbit hole.