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Why is youtube recommending conservative "talking points" to me? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by V01t45@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[+] josephsh98@lemmy.kde.social 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This, the algorithm doesn't care whether you ~~like~~ enjoy it or not, it cares whether you engage with it or not. Even dislikes are engagement.

[–] Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I am constantly bombarded with Jordan Peterson videos despite disliking them and telling the algorithm to show less like this.

I’m not sure how it profiles people, but it sucks.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Disliking is engagement. Instead tap the three dots and select "not interested"

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Go into your watch history and remove them after disliking it. I find removing stuff from my watch history to have a bigger impact over disliking stuff. You can also have YouTube stop recommending specific channels to you. Odds are if they're posting Jordan Peterson content, you're not missing anything of value by blocking them

[–] Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The thing is I’m not sure what I’ve watched that’s triggering the JP spam.

Maybe I need to just nuke my entire history and start again.

[–] med@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you leave youtube/close the app everytime Jordan Peterson opens his big mouth, the algorithm will get the idea quick enough

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[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You don't even have to watch those types of videos. I got watching Star Trek lore videos etc. And got off on to one channel in particular. Whose videos always ended up devolving into rants against SJW and leftists. This from someone who posts lore videos on a show about luxury gay space communism. But simply because of apparently a large portion of his viewership also engages with the bigotry and hatred. I started getting tons of recommendations for shit that I have never watched and would never watch.

But yes Mark not interested and delete from history was the best way to get it out.