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My issue is it over-corrects whenever I watch something new or fall asleep with autoplay or something. Suddenly it thinks that new thing is my only interest in life.
It's even worse when it over-corrects to the opposite, like, I'm watching some lecture on human rights and the algo throws at me right-wing extremist content against that. It's a step away from enlightened centrism.
"You like politics?!?!? here are politics stuff" 10-hours of Racism to fall asleep to
But for me, it tends to see leftist content less as leftist content and more as anti-right content so I get a bunch of libshit that acts like all evils as these surprising forces of nature which is worse for my mental because at least the right content slop is intentional slop by grifters.
It's always hilarious when I put on some kind of "10 hour music mix" to have something playing in the background while I do household chores or something, and then the next time I want to find something to watch I now have nothing but a cumulative 6000 hours of various music mixes in my recommendations.
It's the same absurdity of buying an appliance online, and having the website say "Our records show that you are starting a refrigerator collection. Would you like to buy 7 more?"
The appliances and expensive items get me Everytime 😭.
"I see you've purchased a new TV, obviously you're starting a home theater building business so here are 20 different OLEDs for all types of folk!"
Earlier this week I fell asleep to “Top 10 impossible to reach places on Google earth” and woke up in the middle of the night to some person streaming (and screaming at) clash of clans
Had that but with Fortnite yesterday lmao. Usually, it isn't too bad, I tend to wake up to either video essays (based) or random nature videos (I have never intentionally watched one of these and they are so long and quiet that it has me suspecting the algorithm is trying sleep detection) but had the fun of it being some small channel screaming about #1 Victory Royales recently.