I almost never watch "shorts" but my suggestions for it seem to have an...uhhh...adult theme. I don't watch any such thing with YouTube. Does everyone see garbage like this?
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this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2024
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I'm always on an anonymous VPN and for work am never logged in to YouTube and this is the unfiltered garbage I see too on suggested content.
YouTube lately has stopped attempting reccomendations entirely, instead they berate me for having history turned off lmao.
First, why do you even have a shorts feed? Get rid of that trash. Second, stop clicking on porn and it'll stop recommending you porn.
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Mine is a bunch of podcast clips and reality TV drama slop.
I guess it suggests whatever is popular in your country?
I disabled shorts everywhere. Before I saw your post, I couldn't even recall YouTube having shorts.
Also, Google tracks your everything, not just your YouTube history. You likely use Google Search a lot for adult content. Even a VPN and browsing on incognito mode might not save you. They have lots of ways track you.
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There are Firefox extensions to: disable shorts, make your homepage your subscription page.
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Honestly, I recently created a fake Facebook account and the first things to pop up in the "shorts" was all actual porn (soft but nudity and all) so unlike others I don't think this MUST be your own doing
Jelly- mine is all electronics, home building, and plumbers. Oh yeah, and a bunch of standup comedy.
I'm just getting REAL tired of YT recommending these shit channels that have <300 views, <10 thumbs up, and yet have 20k+ subs and their just ripped videos from other sources with obviously AI generated text to voice.
I've reported a few, and YT has removed them.
Here's an example of one, https://www.youtube.com/@WorldViewtheory973/videos
Putting out a video on random topics every 2 hours.
I never actually log into YouTube so don't get a tailored feed.
Popular videos all adopt one of several formats for their cover.
Search "house music". It's always hot girls.
My main account there is nothing like this, even the shorts are mostly pop science stuff.
But my other account is very much this way on purpose, much like my other Lemmy account, X account (really the only one I use anymore), etc.
It recommends me some of those sometimes, but most of the time my shorts feed is kinda interesting and from people I follow
I ended up installing an extension that blocked all shorts, most of them are trash waste of time anyways.
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The irony is if I had real control over the shorts I'd actually sometimes watch them. But currently YT is trying to force them on me, with no control over which shorts I watch.
YouTube revanced let's you disable shorts permanently. Fuck those useless videos, designed to get you addicted. I'm fairly sure consuming too many shorts irreparably damages the brain. Don't quote me on that but people just stopped fact checking because it takes longer than 20 seconds.
I mostly don't like how it just feels like YouTube corporate wants me to watch shorts instead of regular videos. I don't want to be their darling user bowing to the whims of the empire.
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Google knows!!!!
There's plenty of extensions to block shorts entirely. I'm on YouTube for a good reason. If I was interested in under 10min videos I'd be elsewhere.
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Never touch the YT homepage. Always went straight to Subscription tab and watch stuff you subscribe to or search for the stuff you want to watch yourself. Also turn off watch history and web activity.
YouTube shorts are something I hate so much, that is why I removed them thanks to the extensions available for Firefox.
click on the non-horny ones for thom to stop suggesting it to you
Issue is if you accidentally watch one it will Keep getting recommended, it happened to me with the Dexter TV show.
Keep selecting don't recommend this channel and maybe watch something else?
Yes you are.
Mine's the same. For some strange reason, full of hot chicks. I also don't watch shorts. Maybe they know I'm male and figure that will draw me in.
Hahaha. Whoa! So different. Mine is All stand up comedians and military training things and toolmakers DIY stuff.
I think this stuff is high engagement content among a large subset of the population. So it gets recommended a lot.
Maybe if you watch videos with a niche that doesn't also draw in the same audience as the borderline porn stuff's, you will see less of these shorts. Alternatively, you can download a YouTube client that gives you a completely different interface for subscriptions and recommendations, or use an Invideous instance.
Bruh, fuck YouTube, and if you really have to use it use an alternative client. Grayjay has plugins for more apps but there are solely clients with YouTube no adds no shorts and newer with no games
This. I use Revanced and it hides the shorts shelf and movies by default, so if you're tutorial hopping you don't get sidetracked. You can also choose to hide all side related videos, or just the "recommended for you" algorithm. Bonus, it comes with sponsor block built in.
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Mine has been programming, world history, and how to. They've figured me out.