• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    23 days ago

    Most of them are literally Nazis. Anytime I go to youtube and finish a video all the suggested videos to watch after are obscene “anti-woke” trash.

    The youtube to right-wing pipeline is real.

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      22 days ago

      MSN is also terrible about this shit. I turned off their new tab garbage and replaced it with Bonjourr right before the election because of all the misinformation it was showing. Crazy we just accept this shit man.

      As for YouTube, this is very easy to verify. Sign out of YouTube > CTRL+F5 > look at the top viewed videos

      You will see what garbage most of the populace sees when they go to YouTube without logging in. I believe this is the real reason they don’t care if people log in or not. They can push the narrative while seeming like they’re being good guys by allowing you to consume content “for free”.

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      22 days ago

      None of that has anything to do with the creators on Nebula or the Nebula platform itself.

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      23 days ago

      Weird.
      Mine is just Anime, vtuber, tech (the good kind) and edutainment (e.g. kurzgesagt, real engineering, ezc.).

      Maybe you engage heavily in political content because I mostly avoid it like the plague.

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        23 days ago

        I have watch history disabled

        Man how many people fail to fucking read this is literally re-enforcing my point that maybe more people need to read. This me, quoting myself, from above. Further, someone else made the same kind of comment over a half hour ago and I responded the same, noting that I had already mentioned that I have watch history disabled, so Youtube does not and cannot give me recommendations based on my watch history.

        I actually almost never watch Youtube except for the odd video game trailer or random comedy-shit-post-snippet. I don’t have any subscriptions or channels I care about. I read.

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            yeah thats such a you problem, I cant believe he’s complaining about nazis being default on YouTube, that’s such an isolated problem that only affects him, and why would anyone complain about nazis anyway aren’t they the good guys? - you, apparently

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          23 days ago

          Well, that might be the cause. Kinda scary you get recommendations like that just due to no history.

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            23 days ago

            I have it disabled too and most of my recommendations are the same. I have seen those same exact videos recommended and you can’t block them on the YouTube app. Default YouTube for anyone without defined history is constantly pushing these videos.

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            23 days ago

            A good portion of the country is batshit insane, I’d be more surprised if I didn’t see that represented in the recs

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          Funny think about that.

          I also had it disabled, started watching a longer(ish) video, closed the video and enabled history and somehow YouTube knew how much I already watched before history was on.

          So my guess is that history off is only for the user, YouTube knows anyway, it just pretends not to store it

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            The buffer only stores one video, for direct user experience purposes only, and is wiped upon playback of a subsequent video.

            Well that’s just my assumption based on the company’s data privacy reputation (lul I grinned typing that)


            Love how aggressive Alphabet’s Google’s YouTube is after watch history’s disabled.

            WATCH HISTORY OFF!! CLICK TO ENABLE (NO RECOMMENDATIONS B/C YOU DESERVE A BLANK PAGE) OTHERWISE, AGAIN !PLEASE! !!CLICK!!

            #darkpattern

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              I think it store more if you gave history on. Anyway the recommended are still there at the end of the video or sidebar. But yeah shitty dark pattern

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      You’re correct but the “He has a plan” one is from Money & Macro, a leftist (Marxist-friendly) economics channel. He’s trying to explain the broader strategy behind the tariffs, which (from skimming the video) seems similar to a theory Yanis Varoufakis had as well. I think it’s much simpler than that though… I think they’re just a sloppy way to appear tough on the world stage while crashing the economy so the ultrarich can pick up the pieces, but that’s just me.

      Anyway you’re correct about the rest I think. And tbh even one pipeline video in the top recommended is too many.

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      23 days ago

      The top right video is a video absolutely dumpstering Tesla and calling it a worthless stock. Your recommendations will also highly depend on what video you were just watching, could it be that users who watch your video also happen to watch these other videos? Is that the platforms fault?