I swear, I’ll be watching a video about Linux, or cooking, or science, or cute animals and BAM! “Why China is the Devil” or “We Should Nuke North Korea” video smack in the middle of the recommendations! I don’t even watch any political stuff on YouTube (because it’s a shitshow), and I have my browser set to auto-delete all of Google’s cookies as soon as the browser is closed. Doesn’t matter if I’m on the actual YouTube website, NewPipe, or Invidious. Prey tell, YouTube, how is “Top 10 Reasons Why China Should Be Mainland Taiwan” at all a related video to “Maintainable Object Oriented Development in PHP, Part 4”? Especially when you somehow always fail to fetch the next part of the series for me?

  • folaht
    28·
    2 years ago

    I keep getting Infographics, Wendover productions, TLDR News Global and others.

    Same thing. “China is collapsing” “China has collapsed” “X is happening and will cause China’s total collapse this week” “What happens once Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ends? Putin at international court.”

    I just wonder how these people think they will continue once they lose their credibility.

      • folaht
        5·
        2 years ago

        Well, I was a viewer of infographics.
        I liked the “Bangladesh central bank heist” story, the Japanese escape artist story
        and all the experiments the narrator was doing to himself.
        So I care, though they’d already lost me on their version of the Tiananmen square insurrection.

          • folaht
            4·
            2 years ago

            Oh, looks like I get those two mixed up.
            It’s been a while ago when I last watched infographics.
            Looks like Kento Bento had the better stories.

    • CritiGalDesist∞
      12·
      2 years ago

      Their audience is so dumb that they won’t be losing credibility anytime soon. So yeah that’s that

    • Leninismydad
      9·
      2 years ago

      Wendover is usually fine for content, JT of second thought/the deprogram actually works with Wendover sometimes (doing cinematography I think?)

      • AgreeableLandscape☭OP
        11·
        2 years ago

        Their transportation and logistics content is actually really good. Just steer clear of the geopolitics stuff.

        • Leninismydad
          10·
          2 years ago

          I typically do that with all western channels aside from a few specific ones. Geopolitics is usually brain dead takes.

    • cfgaussian
      6·
      2 years ago

      Could be worse. You could be getting tourist ads for “Israel” like me. I have no idea what to do to stop getting this shit other than using an adblocker which i can’t always use when i’m on mobile.