I recommend the "do not recommend this channel" and "not interested" buttons. That helps with the sidebar recommendations, but I still see right-wing and fascist channels advertised frequently in the sponsored section.
It's a constant struggle with that site's algorithms, its soo obvious that they're feeding people down a fash pipeline. I constantly have to use the "don't recommend channel" options in my recommendations. And even then watching one controversial video fills my feed with the latest batch of fash bs.
I did after watching Internet Historian's videos on No Man's Sky and Fallout 76. He's quite a bit 4chan-adjacent, so I always start getting some "baby's first fash radicalization" videos. Not quite Shapiro-level shit, but the first steps in the pipeline.
No. Use the "don't recommend this channel" and "not interested in this video" features aggressively.
https://freetubeapp.io/
Import your subscriptions and forget about the site.
NewPipe is basically the equivalent of freetube on phone. It's really great, you can have a look.
there's a reason this is algorithmic engineering by the cryptos in san fran
I think it's giving them too much credit to imply that it's entirely intentional but they clearly know and don't care
They intentionally designed it to suck people's time. It's a black box, but it seems to keep track of aggregate crossover interest somehow, then throw those crossover interest videos at you.
Which, unintentionally, helps feed the pipeline.
There were some pro publica articles about it, and I remember a software engineer who worked on it anonymously spoke about how it's designed to keep people on the site, and how that has a side effect of radicalizing the disaffected.
I cant relate, my algorithm is perfect. Im a faux intellectual asshole tho who only watches video essays and shit
every time one pops up, I click the dropdown and tell it to never show me this shit again. keeps youtube usable for me.
Yup. The other thing I saw just yesterday was a bunch of ads for prop 22 here in California which is funded by Lyft and Uber to keep drivers as independent contractors to avoid paying benefits to them. Of course the ads were laundered through "mothers against drunk driving" or some bs.
No, but my account is like 13 years old, and I always delete things from my history after watching if I suspect they might cause this.
It's just like any other garbage-in-garbage-out machine, except you have to be careful with the garbage-in because it's not obvious how much shit it's tracking.
I exclusively watch minecraft, history and cooking channels but my feed is still cancer.
