Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole | The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that::The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.

  • MacGuffin94@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I like to watch videos of media critiques. Somehow all the ones that I keep getting recommended are anti woke d bags that blame every bad movie choice on the company/producer/director/etc going woke. I’ve pretty much had to stop watching those types of videos and try to rebalance the algorithm by watching literally anything that seems remotely left leaning. It’s been 2 months and it’s barely better.

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      1 year ago

      Patrick H. Willems. Thomas Flight. Now You See It. Cinema Therapy. Pop Culture Detective. jstoobs

    • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I have resorted to extreme methods of recommendation algorithm avoidance such as, but not limited to:

      Multiple accounts.

      Proxies and anonymous services like startpage.com anonymous view.

      Non YouTube clients like piped or envidious.

      Using multiple browsers instead of a single google spyware app.

      • MacGuffin94@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yeah I’m just watching less because I don’t want to spend the time doing that. It’s irritating either way but at least this way I can justify since I’m not putting in and time.