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Ya I regularly wipe my cookies and start over with YouTube and the politically charged fresh slate recommendations are definitely not Neo-liberal.

jonathankoren 3y ago
Yeah. “Neo-liberal” is defiantly not how I’d describe YouTube political content. Everything I get is far right bullshit.
- _a9 3y ago
  I think the youtube algo just serves you what it thinks will get you engaged (hate watching?). In the past I've gotten both right and left extremist content. I eventually set my youtube settings to delete everything that is older than 3 months, my feed has been way more usable since I did that. That plus using revanced to remove all the stupid shorts and news/promo sections from the app.
  - jonathankoren 3y ago
    YouTube always gives me the vague “people in your area and time of day” answer, which is totally bullshit. It’s content driven. You watch a video about fighter jets, or Ukraine, get Matt Walsh telling you how we have to eliminate trans kids. Watch an Alan Watts or Terrance McKenna video, get an ad about how the ancient Egyptians used magic flutes to generate antigravity fields to build the pyramids.
  - Slava_Propanei 3y ago
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kiba 3y ago
I worked hard to make my youtube feed mostly free of political content. One time, PragerU stuff starts appearing in my recommendation....I cannot ban it fast enough.
- s3p 3y ago
  I'm not sure why you were downvoted for this. Maybe HN readers are mostly far-right, lol.
  - eep_social 3y ago
    I have noticed that there is a contingent that seems to downvote but not respond to new comments with leftward inclination. Usually the comments recover but presumably enough do not that it’s worth the effort.
    - goodpoint 3y ago
      Indeed, there is a recurring pattern of targeted silent downvotes.
    - sodapopcan 3y ago
      Ehn, I'm not concerned about downvotes, but this is the first comment I've ever made that I have watched consistently fluctuate between 4 and 9 points each time I come back which is kind of funny.
      - eep_social 3y ago
        Never worried but always interested in observing patterns of behavior from over here
  - jonathankoren 3y ago
    It’s a very real thing.

jonathankoren 3y ago

Yeah. “Neo-liberal” is defiantly not how I’d describe YouTube political content. Everything I get is far right bullshit.

_a9 3y ago
I think the youtube algo just serves you what it thinks will get you engaged (hate watching?). In the past I've gotten both right and left extremist content. I eventually set my youtube settings to delete everything that is older than 3 months, my feed has been way more usable since I did that. That plus using revanced to remove all the stupid shorts and news/promo sections from the app.
- jonathankoren 3y ago
  YouTube always gives me the vague “people in your area and time of day” answer, which is totally bullshit. It’s content driven. You watch a video about fighter jets, or Ukraine, get Matt Walsh telling you how we have to eliminate trans kids. Watch an Alan Watts or Terrance McKenna video, get an ad about how the ancient Egyptians used magic flutes to generate antigravity fields to build the pyramids.
- Slava_Propanei 3y ago
  [dead]

kiba 3y ago

I worked hard to make my youtube feed mostly free of political content. One time, PragerU stuff starts appearing in my recommendation....I cannot ban it fast enough.

s3p 3y ago
I'm not sure why you were downvoted for this. Maybe HN readers are mostly far-right, lol.
- eep_social 3y ago
  I have noticed that there is a contingent that seems to downvote but not respond to new comments with leftward inclination. Usually the comments recover but presumably enough do not that it’s worth the effort.
  - goodpoint 3y ago
    Indeed, there is a recurring pattern of targeted silent downvotes.
  - sodapopcan 3y ago
    Ehn, I'm not concerned about downvotes, but this is the first comment I've ever made that I have watched consistently fluctuate between 4 and 9 points each time I come back which is kind of funny.
    - eep_social 3y ago
      Never worried but always interested in observing patterns of behavior from over here
- jonathankoren 3y ago
  It’s a very real thing.