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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 124 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Definite green flag for the video. Red flag for the girl, because who the fuck asks about that?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 107 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not the worst idea to see if someone you're interested in generally aligns with your interests and hobbies and isn't one of those "hidden" right wing nut cases

[–] Jomega@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago (6 children)

YouTube's algorithm is garbage though, so that information is worthless. Pretty sure it pushes right wing stuff on anyone remotely interested in politics regardless of affiliation. As for me, my watch history is off, so that isn't possible in the first place.

[–] itstoowet@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think they flagged me as a gun ~~nut~~ enthusiast because my feed is literally nothing but gun videos. I am American but live in Europe; one of the reasons I moved here is because of the lack of guns!

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Maybe YouTube thinks you're homesick?

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 years ago

Probably misses their old guns

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Oh God, for a while YouTube kept trying to give me right wing videos. You watch one tool review from someone you never heard of before, and all of a sudden, you start getting trad wife videos. Had to install a 3rd party channel blocker to deal with it.

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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Twitter feels a hardcore far-right recommendation engine. YouTube thinks I’m OK, and want to watch Technology Connections (correct) and Colbert (correct).

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[–] Wutchilli@feddit.de 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I dont know, thats a pretty good way of a third Party vibecheck thats Not too intrusive

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[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Might want to see if their feed is full of Tate/Peterson videos

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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 79 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It isn't a good test, because YouTube algorithms are shitty. For example, I disagree with Ben Shapiro probably 90% of the time and think he's an odious troll, but because I watched him in a debate once, YT pushed videos of him for months after.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's actually a hidden test - she doesn't care about the recommendations but wants to see if you're using ReVanced.

[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"I use ReVanced"

goosebumps

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

I didn't even watch him, I watched videos very obviously and openly critical of his horseshit. YouTube's response is to recommend direct videos from many of these fascist sucklers.

[–] GluWu@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I use YouTube specifically to dive into the right wing conservative anti-science rabbit hole. I think it important to understand how many of those people there are and what they believe. I also find it extremely entertaining, in a "this is incredibly sad" kind of way. I have fox news and evolution debunking videos in my recommendations.

Also: https://youtu.be/yuoFsi2iIi0

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[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 63 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] halvar@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago

what do you mean "again"

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[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago

For those that don't know this actually could have happened. The idea of Big Bird being on the Challenger was floated around by the big wigs.

[–] Starkstruck@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I genuinely don't know how a potential date would react to this lol

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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I would probably counter with "you wanna see my subscriptions instead? cuz I don't fucks with no recommendations" and then she'd just walk away because she probably wasn't even talking to me in the first place

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I got an email from Youtube about 11 years ago that simply said: "the algorithm has abandoned you."

And now whenever I go there all I get is a weird orange and green moire pattern.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Teach us how to escape the matrix like you did.

[–] hex@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Get really into videos of open network accessible security cams set to experimental dark ambient. Then fullow their creators down into Umbral Youtube and it's videos of tidepool cams, paracausal physics discussions and Saint Seiya AMVs set to Chilean Poetry literature class lecture notes.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I get her point but that's kinda cringy to say out loud

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And I really don't want to explain NewPipe or that I'm silently judging her for having youtube recommendations.

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[–] amio@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My youtube recs would mostly just out me as a huge fucking nerd who's into cooking, I think it may be a rare W.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Same, got cooking vids, gaming, anime, Manga, and leather working vids.

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Joke's on them; I disabled history a long time ago, so YouTube can't recommend things to me now.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hello, fellow "fuck you and your privacy settings" homepage enjoyer.

Seriously though, it makes me quite irrationally angry that they still have this shitty passive aggressive message on the homepage years after. Just give me my subscriptions feed instead ffs.

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Fuck that. I’ve already got a hard enough time dating while not using Instagram and Facebook. Shits gone too far. I fall asleep every night to Battlefield series of WW2 documentaries

[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Actually a red flag. Like at least 25% chance they're a neonazi

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

yeah right. Have you watched that series? It’s like the greatest ww2 documentary series ever made for history lovers imo. It’s one of the few that goes into full detail about the eastern front. I put on other documentaries too though, just have to search for those that have calm deep voice that’s the right speed and I’m out in minutes. Better than everything else I’ve tried for insomnia

[–] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 15 points 2 years ago

The series itself might not be a red flag, but I suspect that the recommendations from that might be because Google is stupid.

[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not familiar with that series - just that a lot of 88'ers are very into WW2.

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My YT recommendations are full of game lore and Warhammer 40K. I don't care about either, but Youtube really, really wants me to.

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I get to play this YouTube game with students every time me or one of them play a clip as part of a presentation, assuming we're logged in (and we often are, as students and myself use Google Drive).

For me, I simply reveal my love of video games (and since having kids, slews of kid music) but for them it's a wild mix of ASMR, make up videos, musical tastes, and so on. Nothing too crazy yet, but its only a matter of time.

I'm grateful I at least have the foresight to use burner accounts for things like watching cringy movies (I listen to podcasts that make fun of them, so that's a thing). It'd be pretty funny if something like Pandemic 3 popped up in my feed, haha.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hypothetical:

The app isn't installed on my phone so they go to browser instead, page takes a moment to load because of VPN, YT either asks to log in or it asks to turn on watch history in order to get recommendations.

I know from the get-go I'm either getting rated really really highly or really low, or that the reviewer will be dumbfounded. What do you think?

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[–] QuincyPeck@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have a bunch of Soulsborne videos and stuff about the X-Men. My wife already knows this and doesn’t care. LOL

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[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I rarely watch youtube, but got this.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Light mode is going to scare her off, bro.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Actual no joke second video rec in my feed:

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[–] carmanut@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago
[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

To fight ones enemies one must know ones enemies.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Hope she likes Pete Seeger, bread tube, and educational videos, because if she doesn’t I can do better

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Little Joel, Veritasium, Vaush, a perfect representation of me as a person

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

That flag has no color. It's a gigantic question mark somehow devoid of everything but the question.

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