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?
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.
Their viewers don’t give a crap. They never needed creditability for that stuff anyway.
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.Isn’t that Kento Bento, not Infographics Show?
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.
Their audience is so dumb that they won’t be losing credibility anytime soon. So yeah that’s that
Wendover is usually fine for content, JT of second thought/the deprogram actually works with Wendover sometimes (doing cinematography I think?)
Their transportation and logistics content is actually really good. Just steer clear of the geopolitics stuff.
I typically do that with all western channels aside from a few specific ones. Geopolitics is usually brain dead takes.
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.
Yeah. Reddit has also been trying to recommend anarchism subreddits to me for some reason. I have a feeling their recommendation algorithms are specifically tuned to try to make MLs more useful to the bourgeoisie by making them anarchists or libs.
Lol, most leftists are radlibs, that’s why. The algorithm thinks you are one because it doesn’t have a marketing profile for marxists.
Try Slide for Reddit or use old.reddit.com, both don’t have Reddit’s “here what you might like” bullshit.
I cannot use Slide for Reddit because I exclusively have Linux devices (No Android, iOS, etc.), but I can use old reddit, I forgot about that since new reddit has been all I’ve ever used. The only annoying thing about it is that it still doesn’t handle code block markdown properly and they refuse to fix it.
If you can install fdroid you could use infinity for reddit, it’s pretty cool
F-Droid isn’t going to run on Linux. I can use containerization technologies to run Android in Linux using something like Anbox or Waydroid, but that’s a lot of processing power wasted on Reddit, so I don’t particularly want to do that unless I have other uses for Android, which I don’t right now.
Or even RedReader. Both are pretty good.
I recently saw a article entitled “Xi’s great leap backwards”. Uhm, guys… I don’t know how to say this but… I think he’s pressing the big red communism button
Not logged into YT, incognito front page usually has a mix of “SISIPEE HAS FALLEN”, American imperialist propaganda, and a lot of “news” from our local fox news equivalent lol.
I got recommended a video with 2.5k views by “abortion abolitionists” who made the claim that being pro-life is not enough and that they needed holy warriors to go out and physically “stop the murders from taking place”. Disgusting, fascist, terrorist shit. 2,000 views! Why the fuck shove this down my throat youtube?
Wtf they allow this on the site but swearing gets your video demonetised?
You can’t say Fuck on YouTube or call someone a Nazi, but there are entire video pedo rings that they actively ignore and punish you for talking about.
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I’d do it on my domain, I have plenty of servers, but I use a .dev TLD, and it would therefore likely be taken down. Also, it would expose my home IP to anyone who wants to DDoS, which is not a good idea.
Same.
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It’s not just YouTube pushing it, it’s the American public pulling it too. Don’t underestimate the desire for nationalistic propaganda and narcissism. It’s a loop.
I’m getting the same kind of videos daily, usually by the same channels
The fucking Infographics Show! Stop showing them to me YoyTube I don’t want to watch their bullshit!
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Idk, as long as you don’t watch anything political you shouldn’t see that crap. Algorithms of YouTube are forming a very noice tight recommendations bubble for you that is rarely entered by anything else.
Maybe it’s just the Russian thing tho, because our sector of YouTube is kinda low on such crap and those few morons who produce that kind of content are watched by a rather well-defined equally moronic audience who rarely watch anything else, so getting those vids in your algorithms is kinda hard.
What do you have your location set to? I’ve mine set to Ireland (to stop all the army recruitment ads) and I don’t see those videos often.
And not to be rude, but the phrase is “pray tell”I have it set to Canada, where I live. Which might explain it.
I usually don’t login to youtube (use one of those login bypass thingies and adblock) and even I’m getting those. I just use youtube to figure out how to fix stuff and listen to music.
Yeah, I’ve been seeing an awful lot of “check out the cool military hardware the US has” recommended videos lately.
Has been for a while. I’ve been watching military-related stuff as well, so that probably made it worse for me.
