Hi, I am a guy in early thirties with a wife and two kids and whenever I go on youtube it always suggests conservative things like guys dunking on women, ben shapiro reacting to some bullshit, joe rogan, all the works. I almost never allow it to go to that type of video and when I do it is either by accident or by curiosity. My interest are gaming, standup comedy, memes, react videos, metalurgy, machining, blacksmithing, with occasional songs and videos about funny bullshit and I am not from america and I consider myself pretty liberal if I had to put it into terms used in america. But european liberal, so by american standards a socialist. Why does it recommend this shit to me, is this some kind of vector for radicalization of guys in my category? Do you have similar experience?
Fix the input not the algorithm - either disable watch history, or clear it of anyone who you don’t trust their viewers to recommend positive channels.
If you watch something that turns out to worsen your experience, purge it from the view history, undo any likes and remove any comments.
and use the do not recommend chanel button
I’m convinced that button just reccomends them more. I’ve clicked it for quartering some 30 times before I got a browser plugin to just outright block channels.
And youtube still tries to send me his videos.
My “YT™ experience” has gotten a lot better ever since I started avoiding it altogether and opted to watch videos through an alternative frontend. I do get a fairly different “popular” feed, but I mostly ignore that and go directly to my subscriptions feed instead.