YouTube's algorithm is more and more disgustingly reactionary. (hexbear.net)

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I use YouTube without an account most of the time either through a browser (incognito) or NewPipe or PipePipe (Android), which means that the algorithm doesn't adapt to me.

So, every time I see a video, I know that the recommends are unadulterated algorithmic rage. I may be watching a gardening video, there will be some "Women are Evil" type of video, or "random guy talks about why [thing that women do] is wrong, bad and immoral." I am even seeing a comeback of those "sjw cringe compilation" videos - what's this, 2016???

There are also A LOT, and I mean, a fuckton lot, of trad Catholic content being pushed. Mind you, I even set my YouTube to different countries and languages, and it's being spilled that way too.

Fucking nightmare.

I don't want to end it in a low note, so I will also acknowledge that there's quite a bit of left, openly socialist, communist content, too. 10 years ago there was none of that, the right could roam free (I even identified as one, lmao). Contradictions of capitalism, I guess.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

I do this too and it's distressing seeing the consent building machine at work. In my local context it offers a lot of alt right, male rightwinger and war hawk content by clearly well funded but not mainstream ghouls. All male panels and also lots of religious and conspiracy stuff. No left wing content here as far as I've seen.

These come up no matter what sort of gardening or houseplant care video I am watching, it seems to push the reactionary stuff everywhere if using it anonymously.

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