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I just watched 45 mins of that video while folding laundry. The result was a dramatic change in the nature of my YouTube ads and recommended videos to promote preppers and pseudoscience. It's amazing how the algorithm works so quickly to push people onto that radicalization treadmill.
Firefox + Ublock Origin is a fairly quick fix to that problem.
Of course, that won't solve the general societal level problem of idiotic nonsense being more profitable than anything sound and well reasoned, but it might lower your personal stress levels a bit.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca Take a visit to privacyguides.org. The first rule of all the algorithms is that they need your data to work.
Yeah, was on my phone and it opened the link in the YouTube app. So I don't see a lot of them. Was interesting to note how quickly it funnels people though
Remember to delete it from your view history so you don't get suggested actual nutbag videos.