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Why is youtube recommending conservative "talking points" to me? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, I am a guy in early thirties with a wife and two kids and whenever I go on youtube it always suggests conservative things like guys dunking on women, ben shapiro reacting to some bullshit, joe rogan, all the works. I almost never allow it to go to that type of video and when I do it is either by accident or by curiosity. My interest are gaming, standup comedy, memes, react videos, metalurgy, machining, blacksmithing, with occasional songs and videos about funny bullshit and I am not from america and I consider myself pretty liberal if I had to put it into terms used in america. But european liberal, so by american standards a socialist. Why does it recommend this shit to me, is this some kind of vector for radicalization of guys in my category? Do you have similar experience?

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[–] Korne127 1 points 1 year ago

Social Media in general has that habit of furthered spreading far right content and dragging people into such content bubbles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am guessing you probably viewed enough of these videos that YouTube's dumb algorithm is like, "Oh hey @[email protected] wants to see right wing stuff so let's show him that." I agree that it is very annoying. This is why we need to rally behind starting to use PeerTube and cancelling YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What state do you live in?

I know I’m doing good WHEN I get served this kind of content. I don’t browse YT logged in, my browser always deletes cookies upon closure, and I run Ghostery/add block plugins.

Living in Texas, I kinda assume that is why I constantly get this right wing content (ads, vid recommendations). I figure my location is all they know about me and so that is why I get served this content.

It just tells me they don’t know anything about me so my countermeasures are working 🤞🏼

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He said not from America.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh you’re right, totally missed that

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Just use Odysee, the YouTube algorithm is fully cooked from millions of hours of pure crap being posted every day.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Conspiracy theory: All the corps are working together to push the global politics to the right, because leftists dgaf about taking money from corps (as in they’ll tax the corps & the rich).

[–] MelonTheMan 0 points 1 year ago

It's not a conspiracy theory if it's obviously true

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

you can try getting another advertisement I'd

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