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Definite green flag for the video. Red flag for the girl, because who the fuck asks about that?
It's not the worst idea to see if someone you're interested in generally aligns with your interests and hobbies and isn't one of those "hidden" right wing nut cases
YouTube's algorithm is garbage though, so that information is worthless. Pretty sure it pushes right wing stuff on anyone remotely interested in politics regardless of affiliation. As for me, my watch history is off, so that isn't possible in the first place.
I think they flagged me as a gun ~~nut~~ enthusiast because my feed is literally nothing but gun videos. I am American but live in Europe; one of the reasons I moved here is because of the lack of guns!
Maybe YouTube thinks you're homesick?
Probably misses their old guns
Probably hasn't seen a "Recommended school shootings near you..." in ages.
Oh God, for a while YouTube kept trying to give me right wing videos. You watch one tool review from someone you never heard of before, and all of a sudden, you start getting trad wife videos. Had to install a 3rd party channel blocker to deal with it.
I allways curate my watch history, if I have watched a random video outside of the main focus of my prefered categories/history, I will remove it before yt flips out
Twitter feels a hardcore far-right recommendation engine. YouTube thinks I’m OK, and want to watch Technology Connections (correct) and Colbert (correct).
I get pushed right wing YT channels regularly. I have told YT not to recommend these specific channels repeatedly, yet I still get them. I will say most of what they recommend is, at least, is the ballpark of things I would be interested in, but it seems it goes out of its way to push right wing content on me regardless of what I specifically tell it to do.
I get so many Bro Jorgan videos. I say block the channel, and they still crop up. How many shills does he have repackaging his shit?
You know, it's funny, I have NEVER been suggested Rogan. I have thought about this a few times before. With him being soooo big I am always kinda weirded out that I have never seen it in my suggestions.
Where did I go wrong?!?! I'm going to have to reevaluate my whole life now
YT algorithm seems to do alright by me, I'd say for me personally it recommends videos that I have at least a passing interest in about 80% of the time. The other 20 is like old car videos (Seriously I'm the furthest from a "car guy", I'm not a fuckcars member either, but my interest in the non-tech side of cars is non existent other than "tiny explosions make car go") and just generally uninteresting stuff.
What it doesn't do is recommend any right wing crap so ig I got that going for me
Now Twitter otoh, it's like non stop right wing bullshit and very little interesting stuff. Which btw wasn't like that before the Elon takeover, my interaction with Twitter before and after is about the same (very little) so the recommendation algorithm shifted completely on its own after his takeover.....
It seems fairly solid for me.
interesting comp sci concept
shorts: PCB manufacturing, legal eagle, 3d printing, game changer
"a man ate 120 prebiotic gummies and this is what happened to him"
lock picking lawyer
A cover of a Rush song
Sam O'Nella
Zach Freedman
Vaush
Ben Finegold lecture
"the war against tumbleweeds" history deserves to be remembered.
Pretty damn solid. I'd go for any of those and I ain't afeard to admit it.
I was told conservative voices were being silenced though! Was I lied to?!
/sarcasm
I dont know, thats a pretty good way of a third Party vibecheck thats Not too intrusive
Maybe I'm old fashioned, but back in the day you didn't need third party verification for vibes, you'd just go out for coffee or similar and grok their vibe that way.
Except for the fact that the recommendations are completely FUBAR.
My YouTube viewing is mostly vocal coach reaction videos, British comedy and music videos. Bit weird and nerdy, sure, but harmless.
I was careless enough to click an unmarked link shared by a far right troll during a lemmy argument ONCE over half a year ago and I'm still getting recommended Jordan Peterson clips and other such garbage every time I watch something on YouTube rather than NewPipe or SmartTube.
That's not a bug BTW, that's a feature of the recommendations algorithm working as intended.
I'd show a partner my subscription list, but they'd have to listen to my explanations of which ones I watch, which are left over from when I was interested in that or that
Not because they're embarrassing or anything, just I don't really watch the coffee equipment review channels since choosing a coffee system, and wouldn't want to be mistaken for someone who still wastes hours trying to choose how to coffee
Might want to see if their feed is full of Tate/Peterson videos
Exactly, it’s a way to weed out guys midway through the alt right pipeline.
It was an actual possibility though. They genuinely did think about actually doing that for that mission and then for some reason didn't. So there is alternate timeline out there where that's entirely plausible. It's not a random question.