Hi lemmy,

youtube served me this survey today (english translation): "Which of the following issues have you encountered on the YouTube homepage today?

*The page is confusing
*I want to remove a video, but I don’t know how to do it
*I couldn’t find a particular livestream
*The “Do not recommend videos from this channel” menu option does not work
*Other problem
*None of them / not sure"

Which is funny, because I noticed when I blocked a “right wing propaganda” channel the other day in the YT shorts section it just skipped the video and played another one from the same channel.

Disclaimer: All anecdotal evidence, I can’t prove a thing, but even just the idea of me not being able to stop shitty recommendations pains me.

WTF Youtube. Stop that shit.

Edit: Minor Format tweak.

  • 5ubieee@slrpnk.net
    21·
    1 year ago

    Been getting right wing content in my recommended in the past week too, haven’t seen any of that since maybe 2017 when “sjw owned” videos were getting boosted like crazy by the algorithm, today I got recommended a video that looked like straight up fascist apologia. It’s really weird because I’ve pretty much only used youtube to watch explicitly left wing content or view content that has a largely left wing audience (music, visual art etc.) for the past 4 or so years, and whenever I do see right wing content I always click don’t recommend. I really hope it’s just my feed being fucky and that we won’t see another alt right pipeline sort of situation

    • mobyduck648@beehaw.org
      10·
      1 year ago

      Getting people angry drives engagement, YouTube probably thinks you’re going hate-watch it and make them more tasty, tasty ad impressions that way.

      • jarfil@beehaw.org
        5·
        1 year ago

        This is the right answer.

        I don’t watch neither “right” nor “left” videos, I watch science, tech, and ponies. It keeps recommending science, pseudo-science, tech, and ponies (apparently they don’t have categories for anti-tech or anti-ponies).

      • 5ubieee@slrpnk.net
        3·
        1 year ago

        oh for sure, it’s just on other platforms that usually only happens for content that I engage with or have engaged with in the past, which isn’t the case for what I’ve been seeing on youtube. there’s no reason for the algorithm to push content that I engage with less than all other types of content

    • exscape@kbin.social
      7·
      1 year ago

      Mine is doing it too, and I never voluntarily watch any right-wing-related content (not even anti-right-wing). It’s usually anti-trans rhetoric it tries to push on me.

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      1 year ago

      My feed’s been doing the same

      Honestly I thought it was because I clicked on another Warhammer 40k lore video‡

      The mini videos don’t seem to do it but with some of the smaller lore channels it seems to do it, it’s pretty frustrating

      Edit: ‡ I enjoy the lore videos and mini painting videos, it’s been years since I’ve actually played Warhammer though

      • 5ubieee@slrpnk.net
        1·
        1 year ago

        i literally just listen to jungle and watch the occasional vid on sociology i’m just as confused as u are