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All of a sudden, Youtube's been pushing a lot more right-wing shit into my recommended videos. (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The blocktube extension will actually block the channel. Even if I search Jordan Peterson's name his channel doesn't come up.

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