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One must also check what YouTube recommends their elderly parents, because it is easy for them to slide into getting recommended harmful content, mostly things
by qwertox 11mo ago
One must also check what YouTube recommends their elderly parents, because it is easy for them to slide into getting recommended harmful content, mostly things like psychological, religious or alternative-medicine topics. Note that not all of them are harmful, but most of them are published by very odd channels.
- zelphirkalt 11mo agoYouTube should be held liable for what it is pushing. It literally can kill and seriously harm people.
- xethos 11mo agoThe president of the United States of America pushed a horse de-wormer as a preventative during a world-wide pandemic Good luck getting him, his administration, or his Department of Justice, to hold YouTube to a higher standard.
- cynicalcoder 11mo agoThat’s dishonest. Ivermectin is widely prescribed to people too. That’s like calling Ibuprofen a horse anti-inflammatory drug. That doesn’t mean it was an effective covid treatment though. The information from the third world that made it appear like it was seems to have been that it was treating preexisting parasites in covid patients, eliminating a comorbidity and thereby improving covid survival rates. But undiagnosed parasites are rare in the US, so that wouldn’t have worked here.
- tclancy 11mo agoWell, let’s post a deepfake about some left strawman and watch him find the time pronto.
- alex1138 11mo agoIvermectin has scientific evidence behind it. But I can't say that without accruing downvotes, I suppose
- teamonkey 11mo agoScientific evidence as a topical treatment for skin conditions!
- razakel 11mo agoThe data suggesting that it might help treat COVID came from India... where intestinal worms are common. So of course it looked like it worked when you're actually solving a different problem.
- zelphirkalt 11mo agoIt would help your argument, if you actually pointed to that evidence, rather than just claiming it.
- stOneskull 11mo agoyoutube also has kitboga, pirogi, deeveeaar, etc which are very helpful. i introduced my mother, who has early dementia and can't do much, so watches a lot of netflix and youtube, to kitboga and she loved it and found other scambaiters. i'm stoked. i know she will tell a scammer to f off now.
- toofy 11mo agothis seems like credit bureaus charging us to protect our data they keep losing.
- zelphirkalt 11mo agoKitboga guy is a saint! Very entertaining, every now and then.
- beached_whale 11mo agoI think that any of these algorithmic feeds, by any company, should be held as if the companies have vetted the content and it is theirs. And the culpability that goes with that.
- amypetrik8 11mo ago> should be held as if the companies have vetted the content and it is theirs. It's not "as if" it "is". There is a scant difference between an LLM and a recommendation algorithm picking what to "say" out of what, 100 billion or more messages? Because the pool to choose from is so enormous, speech becomes not what one person typed but what one algorithm plucked out of the haystack to show, to influence, and to manipulate for financial gain.
- steveBK123 11mo agoOpening YouTube on a new machine / OS / browser / without login is eye opening in terms of the awful stuff that gets recommended by default and how quickly it tilts worse if you watch any of it.
- shmeeed 11mo agoThis, so much! It's outright disgusting. I have no idea why we tolerate this as a society. I fear it is because this diagnosis isn't widely known, it's happening on the fringes. Everybody, including journalists and tech people, is moving about their own algorithmic bubble nearly all the time. They just can't imagine how bad the situation has become out there. We're turning a blind eye to the very thing that is destroying our societies.
- fakedang 11mo agoEvery time I open YouTube in incognito mode, depending on the region I'm in, I get recommended either far-right content, Bitcoin grifters, Israel shills, nauseating YouTube vitality factories or straight up Jihadist/Hindutva/Christian-right content.
- luke5441 11mo agoFor me it is empty here (EU). They don't even have a link to trending in the side-bar anymore. It just tells to search for something.
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- pabs3 11mo agoIn case anyone needs to help a relative without a Google account block YouTube channels or videos, the subreddit for uBlock Origin has a wiki that can help. You can block videos by channel or video title or URL using CSS rules. Removing the clickbait and watching a few videos of decent content with them helps a lot. https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/youtube https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/youtube
- sizzle 11mo agoHave you seen some of the ads between the videos? There are some shady get rich quick types of influencers selling stuff that might really set them back financially as well.