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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.
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I am not even logged in. I clear my entire browser every day and youtube still tries to shove propaganda. I use Firefox + uBlock Origin on Android. Seems like if you dont use an account, they just show what the average person watches, which is apparantly right wing shit.
Ouch. On desktop I use YouTube in a logged out container tab - after watching a LTT and TLE video my feed usually falls in line.
There is occasionally some disturbing stuff on the homepage which is a little offputting. Funny thing is, in NewPipe on my phone I see no such content!
This is disconcerting to say the least 😑
I dont think the suggestions are even based on history, its just the default "trending" page. Well its not like that every day, sometimes I get random news, like submarine implosion, but often it's just cringy shit like minecraft challenges, something something sniperwolf, reaction videos, "life hacks", nothing meaningful, then you get bad days when its hyper political stuff.
At this point I have been ignoreing the default trending videos for many years, I only search channels I like, such as science channels, tech, gaming.