She's almost 70, spend all day watching q-anon style of videos (but in Spanish) and every day she's anguished about something new, last week was asking us to start digging a nuclear shelter because Russia was dropped a nuclear bomb over Ukraine. Before that she was begging us to install reinforced doors because the indigenous population were about to invade the cities and kill everyone with poisonous arrows. I have access to her YouTube account and I'm trying to unsubscribe and report the videos, but the reccomended videos keep feeding her more crazy shit.

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[–] 34 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

Another thing that I'd consider doing is to unpause her history a bit, put YouTube to play a few videos about other stuff (topics that she'd watch, based on her tastes, minus the q-anon junk), then pause it again. This might tell youtube "I want to watch this".

Side note: that's how mainstream media is making every single one of us flat and single-minded. So you watched X? Onwards you shall see X nonstop.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I fucking hate this.

    I got a new phone recently and wanted to watch some videos on recommend cases and screen protectors, and now 70% of my scrolling feed is related to this God damn phone.

    I own it already youtube, I don't need to see any more content on this phone, ffs

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I had a similar case. I watch a video about a former jewle thif or bank rober analys the GTA5 Jewel store hist. After that I was getting recommended to watch every single one of his vlog where he was talk about how life in prison was. It went on for about a few weeks but it eventually stopped as I never clicked on them.

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