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It the changes are so successful, then why does youtube keep putting videos like "Canada's woke nightmare - a warning to the west" in my feed when nothing else
by dralley 3y ago
It the changes are so successful, then why does youtube keep putting videos like "Canada's woke nightmare - a warning to the west" in my feed when nothing else in my history would suggest that I gave a damn.
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- dundarious 3y agoI have disabled watch history and as much personal tailoring of the algorithm as I possibly can, to the point where my youtube main page is now completely empty, with just a prompt to enable watch history. I am now mostly free of those suggestions. However, I do occasionally get flooded with "rabbit hole" video suggestions underneath a playing video. My personal experience is that it most often happens underneath mainstream news reporting from "reputable" sources (Reuters, etc.). The most recent example was a news story about wildfires, where the first 20 recommendations underneath were exclusively China hysteria from far less "reputable" sources. Videos predicting imminent Chinese societal/political/economic collapse, or a major police state crackdown, or invasion, or about economic imperialism, etc. Personally, I think there's zero basis for any of that, but even if I had a more "mainstream" view that China is a peer competitor and that we're in a new Cold War, these videos would be radicalizing, and exclusively in a more aggressive direction.