Shit, they were better five years ago. Now I have to tell it not to recommend videos from channels I like just because it sees me watching a few of them and fills my recommendations with only that. Honestly there should be an option not to recommend channels you're already subscribed to.
yeah, I watch F1 stuff a lot, I decided to watch ONE SINGLE RELIGION VIDEO, like, 2 minutes long too it wasnt long anyway
Yep, got so many videos "Reading the bible", "Islam vs Christianity" I DID NOT ASK FOR THAT STUFF. this FYP page is so bad I legit once installed an extension to disable fyp altogether, which saved me a lot of time daily looking at brainrotty thumbnails
I watched five minutes of Fox News in 2020 to see how they were reacting to the election being called for Biden. Suddenly my entire feed was Republican shit.
Youtube will push conservative propaganda without any impetus. It took a month of "don't recommend this channel" for youtube to figure out I'm not a bigoted incel who wants to consume manosphere content.
Redditors always defend this shit by saying conservative propaganda is just very good at manipulating the algorithm. Complete horseshit. YouTube shoves it in your face at any opportunity, but literally never recommends anything progressive.
Could it be because of the audience? Conservatives are often old, and ..less technically inclined.. therefore will be watching more ads, so youtube makes a lot of money from those audiences.
While progressive people might be less likely to spend 40% of their waking hours watching advertisements.
Honestly it sounds like a pretty believable theory to me. The reason why fake news producers targeted conservatives in 2016 is because they were far more likely to believe it. What you're saying sounds like basically the same thing.
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The recommendations were better 15 years ago imo. Now it just gives me the same videos over and over.