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Youtube shorts recommendations and ads are unbelievable. My Shorts tab is often recommending me semi-naked females doing random things (with millions of views).

Youtube shorts recommendations and ads are unbelievable. My Shorts tab is often recommending me semi-naked females doing random things (with millions of views). I never ever click those things, since I don't want Youtube to think I wanna see more of it, since a lot of times I use Youtube is to show something to my kids. Also, since I turned off targeted advertising in Google settings, Youtube ads shifted from "random insurance company and macho soap brand" to "cheating dating apps, Mr. Beast click-to-win-$1000 scams, fake GTA6 for mobile and fake Kids gaming stuff". I'm even considering turning those privacy features off again due to this...

eimrine 4y ago
> I never ever click those things > a lot of times I use Youtube is to show something to my kids. Do your kids use to click on that lowball content maybe? My Shorts and all the recommendations are focused about what do I really use to watch. I do not want to watch Shorts at all, to be honest, but at least they seems to be really interesting. For achieving this level of quality of the recommendations, sometimes I use to "watch" in a background tab with no sound some videos from [1] for letting Youtube think about me as a little bit smarter than I actually am. > Youtube ads Why not to learn your kid about how to use adblockers and/or discuss why adwares from Internet are so bad? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=youtube.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=youtube.com
- dyingkneepad 4y ago
  When I show them something on Youtube, the phone is always in my hands. They don't get to click on anything, I never give them unsupervised access to Youtube. Also, they're too young to even think about clicking those butts. Regarding ads, yeah I use the Youtube app mostly because it's a better experience than watch on Firefox for Android or using Newpipe. I kinda wanted both to work, but the native app is so much better...

eimrine 4y ago

> I never ever click those things > a lot of times I use Youtube is to show something to my kids. Do your kids use to click on that lowball content maybe? My Shorts and all the recommendations are focused about what do I really use to watch. I do not want to watch Shorts at all, to be honest, but at least they seems to be really interesting. For achieving this level of quality of the recommendations, sometimes I use to "watch" in a background tab with no sound some videos from [1] for letting Youtube think about me as a little bit smarter than I actually am. > Youtube ads Why not to learn your kid about how to use adblockers and/or discuss why adwares from Internet are so bad? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=youtube.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=youtube.com

dyingkneepad 4y ago
When I show them something on Youtube, the phone is always in my hands. They don't get to click on anything, I never give them unsupervised access to Youtube. Also, they're too young to even think about clicking those butts. Regarding ads, yeah I use the Youtube app mostly because it's a better experience than watch on Firefox for Android or using Newpipe. I kinda wanted both to work, but the native app is so much better...