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I'm very interested in this as well. When I clear cookies and go to YouTube I always see crap for kids, Mr. Beast, and lots of feel-good stuff. The 3 front page
by evandale 3y ago
I'm very interested in this as well. When I clear cookies and go to YouTube I always see crap for kids, Mr. Beast, and lots of feel-good stuff. The 3 front page recommendations right now on a fresh browser are about a shelter dog getting adopted, a movie called The Policeman, and a video with different versions of the song "one, two, buckle my shoe".
I experience this with Twitter too - people complain their default twitter is alt-right, Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, etc. and I don't see any of that in a fresh browser. It makes me wonder what people are watching and visiting so much that the algorithms throw alt-right stuff in their faces with such regularity. I follow Elon Musk and all the other expected tech people a tech person would follow and I don't experience this version of Twitter and Youtube everyone seems to complain about.
- wussboy 3y agoIn my experience the default does not lean right. But it is very easy to start getting recommendations that way and once it starts it doesn’t seem to stop.