Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole
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The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.

Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole | The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that::The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.

  • Kuya@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    10 months ago

    I’ve been watching tutorials on jump ropes and kickboxing. I do watch YouTube shorts, but lately I’m being shown Andrew Tate stuff. I didn’t skip it quick enough, now 10% of the things I see are right leaning bot created contents. Slowly gun related, self defense, and Minecraft are taking over my YouTube shorts.

    • DreadPirateShawn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      If you don’t already, you can view your watch history and delete things.

      I do that with anything not music related, and it keeps my recommendations extremely clean.

    • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I like a few Minecraft channels, but I only watch it in private tabs because I know yt will flood my account with it if I’m not careful. There is no middle ground with The Algorithm.

      • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Yeah it’s too much skewed by recent viewing. Even if you’re subscribed to X amount of channels about topic Y but you just watched one video on topic Z, then say goodbye to Y, you only like Z now.