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Comment on YouTube Video Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users, Researchers Suggest

Amphobet@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

As tempted as I am to reply “Well, duh,” I suppose it’s good that we’re getting research to back up what we already knew.

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PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yep. Every time I open YouTube, before signing in, the much of the front page is just far-right conspiracies, blatant misinformation, and other sketchy content.

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- rckclmbr@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Mines all cycling, music videos, movie trailers, and lofi music. What are we doing differently?
  
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  - PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Edit 2: I loaded it in an incognito window and it just says “youtube watch history is off” with no recommendations. I really think it’s you man
    
    Might be something to do with Chrome or that. I’m on Firefox and get a filled out home page when first loading youtube (no history or cookies, mid levels of fingerprint blocking). After logging in, I get the notification for disabled watch history, but not before.
    
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- MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Even before signing in YouTube well still try to recommend what the overall household watches by matching it up to the IP address. It’s also why when signing in you sometimes get recommended what someone else in your family watches even if you don’t. Same thing happens when you’re not signed in too.
  
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