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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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Ask yourself why, then log out, delete the app, and go watch on a browser without logging in.
Or if you have to use an app, try Smarttube or something similar. Without logging in.
When I'm logged in, the few shorts they show me tend to be from channels I'm subscribed too. If I go to the homepage incognito (back when they still showed you stuff when you rejected their terms) it was mostly either shock value, expensive stuff, sexualised stuff, sports. So lowest common denominator stuff, I guess.
Yeah buddy that's definitely on you mine is all science and homestead content.
My Instagram and Threads feeds are like that. Not YouTube.
I haven't actively used Facebook since I was in high school, and recently scrolling through my feed it's not even softcore it's straight up p*rn!
I keep hiding these posts & they don't stop appearing... I wish I could tell Facebook I'm not a perpetually online horny teenager anymore. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
More of a you think, I think. My shorts feed mostly comedy stuff, DND stuff, art stuff, and music stuff. Well, and the odd Christian preacher, which I assume gets wrapped up with the atheism content I also see.
From the image, I have seen 3 of them on my youtube homepage.
It's such a distraction while you are browsing for videos... Recently I have been trying this extension to block off shorts. I think it works for the most part.
Hope this helps someone.
Mine are mostly about nail art techniques and skincare reviews in French.
Google has more info on you that any other company on the planet... they know what you are into. You private tabs were never really private.
I had the idea to start counting it as a "Thirst-trap BINGO" each time every single thumbnail for shorts recommendations had a half naked woman with her mouth slightly open. Turns out that it happened more than half the time, and the game quickly got boring.
I have never watched a single short on YouTube, so apparently it's just the default recommendations that are horny af.
Yes, but for some reason it's asian women doing sports. I never watch shorts anyway so whatever.
Yup some days and its annoying. You click on one that you think will be genuinely interesting and if it has any woman being any level of attractive, your feed turn to thirst trap. I like woodworking and outdoors engineerinf Innocent stuff right?. Now I get the most handsome bearded athletic hunk lumberjack that keep posting log splitting videos. Took me a while to realize that it was not about that cool ax head or the wedge technic.
Yeah lots of thirst traps. I have the big issue on FB shorts. I have to admit I've taken the bait and honestly it's not worse than anything else on my feed so whatever.
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.
IDK, I've been having decent luck with them lately. After channel banning a bunch of thirst trap and tikthot dance vids, I'm really only seeing cooking/science/D&D shit in my shorts feed.
There is a part of me that does want to scroll through short form videos, but they're all run by companies I hate:
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.
I just fucken hate short form content. A twenty minute video is too short for me sometimes, give me a three hour long video on how some dude went missing in a random ass national forest ive never heard of.
I don't hate short form content necessarily. It's a mood thing. Sometimes, I want to see a rapid fire of motorcycling videos, for instance. But other times I want to see 20 minute videos, and other times I'm in the mood for videos over an hour.
My Shorts list is a lot of random Spanish-language stuff. I don't speak Spanish.
No, but I don't mind that. It's the only time short feed content is acceptable for me.
IT'S NOT CORN! IT'S CALLED A THIRST TRAP I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW, UNEDUCATED PIG!
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YouTube shorts are something I hate so much, that is why I removed them thanks to the extensions available for Firefox.
Way to out yourself. Their algo depends on what you spend time watching. Lol
Yeah, it seems to show me mostly comedy stuff, tool and hardware stuff, and some computer and retro gaming stuff. But almost none of this kind of stuff.
I'll say that at least a few months ago, on a brand new system I went to YouTube and it looked pretty much like this, with a fresh history and no login. I thought it was unusual and then I logged in and they mostly went away.
Obviously not.
I've never had anything softcore-adjacent even, mine are filled with magicians and obscure shorts that are not sexual in any way, at any point in history. They seem highly targeted toward my viewing history at any given moment in time.
My viewing history is disabled, so maybe pseudo-porn is just the default
I constantly get pro right wing, pro Christian garbage in my feed. I keep spamming do not recommend channel and not interested and yt keeps shoveling that garbage in my shorts feed. Ads are also "suggested" based on geophraphic area.
Eh. Pretty much all of my viewing is related to physics I don't understand, astronomy I don't understand, and weird history stuff. I still get the soft porn algorithm on shorts.
Closest I come to viewing is when I'm scrolling and my phone interprets that as a click. Then I get pissed off because that fraction of a second for the algorithm is like letting a single pregnant cockroach into your kitchen.
Try to remember to select the 'Don't recommend this channel' any time you see those sorts of videos. I've been doing that a ton lately and my shorts feed is mainly shit that's actually interesting, and the more I ban those shit vids, the better my feed has been getting.
Yeah, the simplicity and also effectiveness of advertising algorithms are sometimes overstated.
There is a huge amount of data that is stored about users, and that does definitely make its way into the ads that we see. Grouping all the user information into ad categories is not a simple task, so there's a lot of mismatch that happens. But a lot of the time it's also location-based, time-based (when who views what) or even just what the biggest spenders want us to see based on our demographics. Tits and ass are fairly demographic agnostic, so they appear in a lot of feeds regardless of preference or orientation.
Right-wingers are fairly desperate to push their viewpoints and pay a lot to so, so we end up with a lot of vague associations or fully non existent ones resulting in that kind of content appearing in feeds. I'm a left leaning, queer and trans woman living outside the US and I see these bullshit ads from time to time (which for obvious reasons is pretty infuriating). I honestly think that having a small online footprint and using adblockers, privacy-friendly browsers and operating systems, etc. is going to become more and more common just as a mode of self-care.
This is just untrue. Shorts defaults to the same for me as a gay man who has never clicked on a single one of them.
While that is true, it's also true that if the algo has no data on you it just shows you what most other people want to see, which is usually boobs
Idk when I made a new account on Facebook all it did was show me fake pages with porn. After a while the algorithm caught up to my style and now I have to go find it randomly lol
I had a phase, where it suggested loads of shorts from turkish cigarrette factories. I never watched anything cigarrette related and my subs contain mostly science communication, makers and some commentary channels
Doesn't happen to me on YT but on Facebook with suggested pages but only for a brief while....
