Comment on YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead

• S_204@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m a lefty tree hugger who subscribes to frugal living and DIY home maintenance channels… I get right wing Jordan Peterson/ Joe Rogan bullshit in my feed every time I log on.

  I actively click not interested…it still comes. I clear my browser history often, it still comes.

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  • Ktheone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You should pause your watch history altogether if you’re getting this kinda shit. Youtube has stopped recommend anything to people altogether who have completely paused their watch history.

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    • IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How bout instead YT take the fuckong hint when we click “I am not interested in this”? How bout that? Why does a feature which some of us are paying for have to be disabled because YT can’t write a version of their simple algorithm that takes hints?

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  • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Your “lefty” content prompts the algorithm to show you opposing content, which is literally what people are clamoring for, because odds are high that you will engage with it, and engagement is the only thing it looks for.

    If you only liked Trump shit it’d show you a minority of left-leaning content as well.

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• WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have been telling youtube im not interested in Joe Rogan for years. It still gives me joe rogan youtube shorts

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  • sulgoth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Doesn’t help that everyone and their mother has a channel that only shows Joe Rogan clips. I don’t even like this shit YouTube, why can I recognize it from the fucking microphone.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You probably has some Joe Rogan video in your watch history.

    Even hovering over those shorts can get them added on there for some dumb reason.

    Go purge your history and see how much it improves.

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    • WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      hmm, I have watch history off. Is that why it keeps suggesting him so much? Im getting the ‘defaults’?

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      • IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes

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• frododouchebaggins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why do you people insist on this conspiracy theory where you blame the person because you think they are lying? Fuck off. Google’s algorithm is malicious.

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  • sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    did I say you were a liar? Christ… I don’t get this shit in my feed, that’s my reality

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  • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not a conspiracy theory to assume and algorithm takes what you watch and are interested in into account. That’s what it does.

    It is a conspiracy theory, and an easily disproven one, to suggest the algorithm forces this content on you.

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  • IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, I am getting pretty real tired of that excuse. It takes active vigilance to try to teach the algorithm that no, I am not a christofascist incel “pAtRiOt” and I do not want those fuckers in my feed

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