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  • This is ridiculous.

    • their algorithms are crap and keep ramming right-wing bullshit down my throat
    • they keep trying to get me to play YouTube games
    • they list YouTube Shorts multiple times in the Home Screen and most of the time it is just over-sexualised jailbait.
    • using anonymous Google to find a video on YouTube is more effective than using YouTube search

    I am seriously thinking of getting an Apple Vision Pro just so I can use Juno and bypass all the bullshit.

    Time I planned an exit strategy.

    • I'm gonna be honest dude. The "shorts is just over-sexualised jailbait" is a you issue, and more of a self report on the shit you watch, or you being hyperbolic. I often watch shorts and have not once ever seen anything remotely as you describe.

      You get served kid videos because you watch them, which is sick of you. It's wild you'd admit that when common knowledge is algos show you content you seem to like.

      • Jailbait is probably the wrong word, but every single short has a scantily clad young lady. It isn’t the Algorithm because all I watch are Machining Videos, DIY and Restoration Videos and the occasional Science and Natural History video.

        The most risqué channel subscribe to is VanWives.

        Speaking of which, the Algorithm never serves anything that I subscribe to. I would better off going straight to my Subscriptions page.

        I will maintain my observation that the Algorithm is shit.

    • I don't get allot of that, possibly because I have History turned off and refuse to turn it back on.

      • I vastly avoid Right Wing content, and most of what I do encounter is like old school Republican, reeeally old school Republican. They are as pissed at the Right Wing's take over by the Alt-Right(and worse)
      • YouTube has games?!?
      • The shorts content I get is mostly computer content and news, some branding because I have entered contests, and that is it. I have seen 1 short that was even approaching jailbaity and it was an add for a coming of age movie.
      • It has been literally over a year since I used Google to find a video (well except for a tech support video I keep loosing the link to that I use to help people with installing Windows 11 Locally) and I have been using Startpage which anonymizes Google results.

      If you disabling your Ad ID and turning off your history and you still get all that BS I would be looking for an Exit Strategy to.

      • I usually get bombarded with Right-Wing content after I watch Juice Media videos. Also, if a watch a feminist video, it is usually followed by recommendations of “AnTi-WoKe” mansplaining videos. it is if they want to show “Both Sides” after I watch something about maintaining democracy and contributing to society in a positive way.

        The YouTube Games are just another banner of unwanted “content” like Shorts.

        The T&A shorts are usually of young women in jeggings and crop-tops doing risqué actions; if your mouse passes over the Shorts for a millisecond , YouTube autoplays them and registers as a view, creating a negative feedback loop of more and more scantily clad young women doing mundane things in a risqué way.

    • Just use NewPipe (alternative YouTube front-end with more features and no ads)

    • they list YouTube Shorts multiple times in the Home Screen and most of the time it is just over-sexualised jailbait.

      Commenters are quick to jump tondunk on you but they don't realize that youtune runs "studies" or just pump shit up if creator pays. Behavior here is indicative of a larger social issue with bootlickers.

    • The shorts thing is on you buddy. Never had any of that and it's 100% of shorts by people I watch, or of people that are similar to who I watch.

      • If you've followed the YT news you'd know this isn't true. They literally advertise sex to kids in the ads. I watch a bunch of travel people, animal and history programs, and woodworking/handyman stuff. Never once clicked on a short cause they don't cast. Every day they put up some Korean cheerleader or other bullshit I don't give 2 shits about. YT algorithm is manipulative as fuck and sucks now. I get most of my vid referrals from outside sites.

      • The shorts algorithm is really weird I find. The ones it advertises are usually essentially thinly veiled smut (whereas most videos I watch are tech/science/aviation stuff). But (and I think this is important), if I start watching shorts, most of them are normal type shorts in line with what I'd want to watch. So it feels like it puts some stuff up it thinks will grab your attention but doesn't push it once you're watching. I'm sure there's a good reason for it. But, just comes across as weird to me.

        I don't get right wing stuff in shorts, but I do sometimes get it in the main videos suggested. How I think it happens is, I watch some videos about computer games, or perhaps a video on a games/science topic which is made by a channel that either also has right wing content OR their viewers also watch such stuff. So it figures, well if they viewed video A, and viewers that watched video A also watched video B, let's push video B to that user too. The algorithm doesn't really understand left or right wing, just pattern matching from views and other metrics.

        I find if you start telling youtube that you don't want to see them, they will go away, at least for a while.

      • So what you're saying is you trust YouTube to do it right? With shorts? I got bombarded with bullshit in shorts, the 50 times they got it in front of my eyes somehow, I never watched any of that in my normal yt rounds. That algorithm is made to brainwash, not to serve you what you want.

    • The recommendations are not the best but good enough. I usually get movie clips, repair clips, some animal clips and some tech ones.

  • They've figured out that it's impossible to have children today without paying for Youtube Premium Family ...

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