All of a sudden, Youtube's been pushing a lot more right-wing shit into my recommended videos.
All of a sudden, Youtube's been pushing a lot more right-wing shit into my recommended videos.
In the past few days, it's recommended:
- Some guy saying vegan diets don't work (news to me, considering I've been on one for years)
- A different guy complaining about PETA's new game
- A woman saying women in modern games are too ugly
- The same woman saying women don't really want to be in charge of anything
- Some bullshit from ShoeOnHead
- Paul Joseph Watson
Not sure where this all came from. I'd actually enjoyed a very long, pleasant streak where it wasn't recommending me any of this trash. Now they're coming out of the woodwork. Every time I see one of these videos I click the "don't recommend this" button, but there are always more.
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Yeah, honestly the "don't recommend this" button barely does anything anymore, I've resorted to straight up blocking channels. The algo seems to fixate on stupid shit and not let go of it. As a personal anecdote, at some point it kept recommending me stuff related to a specific anime, I never watched videos about that anime, I won't watch anime, so on, after blocking those channels on sight it settled down.
Which anime was it?
bocchi the rock
Do the channels you block show up in your search results?
I've blocked the fake trailer sites and an anorexic youtuber but if I search an unrelated topic they still show up in the results.
same for me, seems like "block this channel, do not show it to me ever again" gets interpreted as the new "show me less of this", a friend told me (and take it with a grain of salt) that for them channels get automatically unblocked after a couple months, i didn't notice that, yet
The blocktube extension will actually block the channel. Even if I search Jordan Peterson's name his channel doesn't come up.
