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BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

I have no idea why you’re being downvoted since you’re 100% correct. I watch one video about gaming and YouTube’s recommendations are all alt-right anti-feminist stuff with Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson.

Google surely knows enough about me to know I lean far-left but the algorithm is determined to feed me that slop.

I have no idea from a technical perspective if Odysee’s algorithm is independent from or worse than YouTube’s, but the criticism of YouTube is completely valid.

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natecox@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
They’re being downvoted because one platform being shitty doesn’t excuse another from it.

See: Tu Quoque

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- BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I didn’t read the argument as saying one platform’s behavior excuses the other. I saw it as saying that both are bad.
  
  It certainly doesn’t come across as a defense of either platform to say they’re both infested by Nazis.
  
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sapporo@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
that’s why you should be logged out of Google at all times and also clean your cookies periodically :)

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- BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  The thing is that I do want to have my subscriptions and favorite channels, and as long as UBO blocks ads, I haven’t fully made the switch to a different front-end.
  
  But it still bothers me that it serves me far-right, religious, and conspiracy theory content given that I’ve never once engaged with any of those topics.
  
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r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I have watched super progressive content on Youtube but also watched conservative content as well. It’s possible there are a lot of progressives who also watch content from the other side so the algorithm pushes it.

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