> YouTube recommendations have always been pretty awful, incentivizing people to avoid exploring videos on controversial topics once they learn that if they do

> YouTube recommendations have always been pretty awful, incentivizing people to avoid exploring videos on controversial topics once they learn that if they do so, they’ll be inundated with garbage on that topic. I haven't had too many problems with their recommendations, then again I do not log in and have topic specific containers setup in Firefox. After a while, it pretty much limits videos to a specific topic within a given container. The results may not be things I want to watch, but at least I don't get much crazy stuff. As for controversial topics: yes, I avoid them. Then again, that has as much to do with avoiding agenda pushing dreck than anything else.