Submitted 18 hours ago by Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub to technology@lemmy.world
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Welcome to Youtube, person who has never been to Youtube before. Here’s what we have to offer:
This is what our company one looks like.
Imagine a memory care when you go to put on music you get recommendations for Meagan the stallion and lil boosie
It really makes you realize the slop being shoveled by the algorithm
Tried this on a private window, and yes, that’s what it looks like. Thought I’d click on Shorts and let the first 3 seconds of the opening auto-play video play. Then back to the home page and wow, full of absolute trash.
Holy shit it works, and transforms the front page into an ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE
I’m like, “Is this what normal people in 2025 watch?” I feel like an alien on earth, except the planet changed and not me.
How am I not surprised? Shorts is video equivalent of cancer.
I just get a notification stating I don’t allow them to track me so they have no garbage to stuff down my throat
I do miss the Mr. animal slop, clickbait nonsense with hundreds of millions of views, and occasional original content
Better than whatever brains of garbage would come up of it was just giving you a default based off what’s popular.
Ok but I’m pretty sure it’s like this because if they make recommendations they go from being a social media company to a publisher, so they can’t make recommendations not based on what things you watch through the algorithm. And if you don’t have an account they aren’t (at least officially) tracking what you watch to make recommendations.
Yeah and you can get to the most popular short form stuff with one click but not long form. Its like. Well since we are trying to compete and take over this area here we will put some minimal effort forth.
Lovely
Still remember the first time I saw this. It was the last time I touched YouTube for a looong time.
It would cost them absolutely nothing to show a feed of hot/high rated/popular videos. Throwing in some entropy such that it doesn’t only show the most viewed videos globally wouldn’t be hard at all either. They’re just openly stating that they don’t want you there at all if they can’t track your viewership.
I'm not defending yt, but I am curious to know how specifically this isn't mostly an overreaction if possible
Objection@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
I specifically disabled my watch history to get this. If I want to watch something, I’ll go to my subscriptions. Why would I want to interact with YouTube’s algorithm?