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YouTube's algorithm is more and more disgustingly reactionary. (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 days ago by throwmunist@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net
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I use YouTube without an account most of the time either through a browser (incognito) or NewPipe or PipePipe (Android), which means that the algorithm doesn't adapt to me.

So, every time I see a video, I know that the recommends are unadulterated algorithmic rage. I may be watching a gardening video, there will be some "Women are Evil" type of video, or "random guy talks about why [thing that women do] is wrong, bad and immoral." I am even seeing a comeback of those "sjw cringe compilation" videos - what's this, 2016???

There are also A LOT, and I mean, a fuckton lot, of trad Catholic content being pushed. Mind you, I even set my YouTube to different countries and languages, and it's being spilled that way too.

Fucking nightmare.

I don't want to end it in a low note, so I will also acknowledge that there's quite a bit of left, openly socialist, communist content, too. 10 years ago there was none of that, the right could roam free (I even identified as one, lmao). Contradictions of capitalism, I guess.

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[โ€“] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yah I've been using it forever. I do wish I could get the algorithm to suggest shorter 5~10 minute videos, though. Too many video essay channels are on my feed, but I suspect that's because shorter content had moved to Instagram and TikTok.

[โ€“] mermella@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago

Change playback speed