There is no such thing as truly objective YouTube search results

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• Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you add before:2026 to any YT search it removes all the “People also Watched:” stuff.

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  • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    It’s completely sad that we need ho resort to this kind of shit.

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• four@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Whenever I go to YouTube in an incognito window I always see videos from my country and it’s the videos that most people watch (usually Mr. Beast type stuff or some old guy talking about war). So yeah, it’s already curated based on where I’m from, before I do anything

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• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The first 6 aren’t bad. After that, the relateds just want you to become a nazi who DUNKS on DEMONCRAT. It’s truly awful.

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• HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pausing the view history and regularly clearing search history seems to help

  It’s by no means perfect, but better

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  • Interstellar_1@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was thinking more in the way that your search results will always be curated to you, probably even before you watch any videos, even if it's just by your ip address or where you live

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    • Acamon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think it’s been a very long time (if ever) that YouTube searches weren’t somewhat localised. If you live in an anglophone country you might not notice it, but YouTube wouldn’t have got very far if Germans got rodents instead of advice when searching “rat”.

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    • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The algorithm seems to weigh heavily on a user’s history, what they have watched and what they have searched for in addition to what they also want you to see

      They like to mix it in there so it’s less sus

      As soon as I turned off all personalized ads, wiped and paused history as well as search history, the gloves came off

      I immediately started getting spammed with Turning Point USA and PragerU ads without ever searching for anything like it

      I haven’t seen any ads that are center or left of center and beyond since doing so

      I have even tried searching for left leaning content directly in Google search while signed in with the same account

      The search delivers the results of the search but nothing is carried over by the algorithm in YouTube like it had previously

      Just more extreme right content.

      Google has essentially become anothrr Sinclair Media Group, a conduit for right wing propaganda

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• hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i tend to use video.google.com on vpn or invidious to search, seems to work pretty well

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