Reminds me of that Pro ZD skit about hobbies
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2024
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confirmed, this is how i got into lock picking.
" Hello, this is the lock picking lawyer, and what I have for you today..."
"Nothing on 3, click on 4, counter rotation on 5, back to the beginning, click on 1, and... We've got this open."
Lol, this is hilarious and pathetic at the same time. At this point, a zip-tie is more secure than a masterlock 😂
The only reference I have for this was someone who I knew who rubbed said slime on herself for YouTube when she was 17 to build a following for when she turned 18 and started camming.
That's fucked up
And that is why I only open videos about topics I am only mildly interested on or from controversial channels in incognito mode even though I actually pay for ad-free YouTube Premium.
On my defense, that is the only streaming service I pay for.
TFW you forget to wear protection when clicking on a weird video and you permanently scar your algorithm. You try to heal it, but days or weeks later, you are showing your boss a video on marine grade industrial sealant and Chappell Roan Pink Pony Club shows up in your recommended videos and you have to lie and say you have no idea what it is. When he is gone, you play it again.
clicking on a weird video and you permanently scar your algorithm.
It's trivial to delete individual videos from your watch history, even moreso if you just saw it. Doing so makes it as if you never clicked on it in the first place.
TIL
Or turn off history tracking and it stops doing that shit
At least premium has the benefit of paying creators more for your watch time, which is nice.
The phrase "ok slimers" legitimately made me laugh out loud
I’m certain my YouTube feed is trying to radicalize me into some kind of culture warrior. It’s really annoying. I deleted all of my watch history to try and reset it and it just got way worse real quick. I watch one stupid video, now all I see are angry tubers upset that people don’t think exactly like they do and enjoy things they don’t. Then they convince themselves they’re more enlightened than anyone else because they make this content and ban anyone who makes fun of them, all while claiming to be “free speech advocates” of course.
YouTube got bad so fast it’s left my head spinning.
All I get recommended are craft and history videos.
I get comedy skits and indie games with a splash of science and neat history stuff
I started with a clean profile: I never log in to YT so it's just using a local cookie you can always clear to start over.
Anyways, I just searched a few sciencey things to feed the algorithm and now I'm getting loads of crazy fake "science" and conspiracies and the rest is all extremist right wing bullshit.
YouTube is getting useless.
Yup, last week Ive clicked on a YT video of certain game, shut it down about 1 minute in after realising it was just another rage-baiting angry youtuber lamenting how the game is too woke. Now all I get is recommendations of angry anti-woke youtube videos bashing the game I actually enjoy.
Veilguard? I keep blocking those channels.
Yeah, I was being vague to derailing this thread off topic too much.
you can turn off watch history all together and it will just give you generic related videos on the side.
Have you tried clicking the 3 dots on these outrage videos and selecting "don't recommend channel" or a mix of that and "not interested?" I started to see a bunch of right wing political trash in my feed a while back since a lot of my watched videos could be considered adjacent (cars/trucks/offroading/home improvement/dash cam vids/etc) to what these people like and I haven't really had this issue again.
I have done this. I have told them not to post me shit from channels, and topics, over, and over. Best it seems it can go is like 2 months. When I tried deleting my history, and turning it off, it got SO MUCH WORSE. Even making a new account was orders of magnitude worse. As sad as it is, I am actually getting a better result... I have long been at the point where I do not click on things I am not familiar with, or without suggestion from a trusted source. So I just don't look at recommended anymore. Just look for the indicator of new stuff from my subs, or look at things I specifically search for.
It's wild that right wingers are always complaining about big tech censoring them when YouTube and Facebook are pushing far-right content so much
It's wild that right wingers are always complaining about big tech censoring them when YouTube and Facebook are pushing far-right content so much
I've got a conspiracy theory about this:
- Everyone likes kittens.
- Some of us who like kittens think about how to act decently to each-other, some of the time.
Leading to:
- Right wingers who like kittens will sometimes see something "woke" in their algorithm feed, and they feel attacked.
They still think that YouTube and Facebook are representative of the average person. They don't understand how incredible curated those feeds are. I think that's where some of the "silent majority" mythos comes from. Everything they see is people agreeing with them, therefore it's impossible that Joe Biden got more votes in 2020.
If you want it to just not recommend things, you might prefer switching to an RSS feed, or to something like NewPipe.
This is not a story of the algorithm predicting what you like. It's showing if you expose a human to the same content over and over again. It can change their way of thinking in order to like the thing they are exposed to. Even more so if they don't know how it works and the person think everyone is into slime. I need to be into it too to fit in. It's very powerful if you want to manipulate populous. It's algorithm induced Stockholm Syndrome.
You don't even need an algorithm to do it either. I didn't use Linux when I signed up for Lemmy...
It's not always a bad thing lol
It's showing if you expose a human to the same content over and over again. It can change their way of thinking in order to like the thing they are exposed to.
See also: top 40 radio
Things to get into this week:
- newpipe
- freetube
Then you decide where to go from there.
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