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I'm in a country with more gun control than USA and way less firearms death. YouTube recommends me pro-firearm 'freedom' propaganda. I watch transit infrast
by Kuinox 3y ago
I'm in a country with more gun control than USA and way less firearms death.
YouTube recommends me pro-firearm 'freedom' propaganda.
I watch transit infrastructure video, YouTube recommends me "Karen who brake check on highway" videos.
Also out of nowhere I have videos of climate activists being ridiculed.
The problem isn't so much the rabbit hole but YouTube pushing peoples on certain political viewpoints.
- benabbottnz 3y agoPerhaps it wants to rage-bait you into watching and commenting on the video. After you’ve seen the two 15s ads, of course!
- danjoredd 3y agoI have been suspecting this for a while. I am a Christian, and YouTube regularly recommends channels about atheism with provocative titles not long after I watch a few videos on theology. Facebook has been doing similar things for the last decade, monitoring likes and reactions to determine what makes a person the most upset and engage the most. It would not surprise me if Google decided to do the same to drive engagement. The rage train is profitable and has no breaks, after all!
- DharmaPolice 3y agoSpeculating it's because (previously) the recommendation system was heavily tuned towards novelty. Once you watch a video (or channel) which opens up a new part of the network it gleefully pushes a disproportionate number of videos your way. So I watched a few videos from Derek of "More Plates More Dates" about body building/steroid use and sure enough I was getting various Jordan Peterson videos, some "why x woke thing is killing hollywood" and even some repackaged Andrew Tate stuff. It's like an excited friend who hears you enjoyed Watchmen and has hundreds of comics to recommend. Except it's much less pleasant. The novelty bias occurs outside of YouTube as well. I was walking in London a few years ago and an old guy asked me for directions to the local mosque. I had to look it up on my phone for him and for a couple of days I had recommendations about other mosques/muslim bookshops I might want to check out.
- Kuinox 3y agoMy problem is that it never recommend me good stuff. I never found Not Just Bikes videos on YouTube, but through reddit. The same way the ai news channel I found made by someone that isn't someone who don't know anything they are talking about, was found also through reddit. The only good thing YouTube recommended me this year are uscsb videos.
- SxC97 3y agoI’ve been on YouTube daily for ~15 years and my experience is totally different. I found NJB via the YT algorithm and I don’t get any recommendations for AI spam channels. In fact, I get a pretty steady flow of high quality channels. Periodically, I have to hit them 3 dots on the recommended video and click don’t recommend this anymore. This does a pretty good job of filtering out crazy political videos and low quality reactionary content.
- me_me_me 3y agomaybe try to clear your youtube history to reset recommendations. I am subscribed to Forgotten Weapons channel (the only gun related channel) and I never got any crazy, conspiricy etc recommendations. Maybe someone else is using your youtube channel to view stuff and inadvertently poisoning your recommendations?
- Kuinox 3y agoI know why and when I started to get bombarded with firearms content: I discovered, and watched 3 video in an hour about 3D printed firearms.