These algorithms are not solely based on the things you watch. I believe it’s also based on your location and even close contacts. So if, hypothetically, I live in shithole Trumpistan with my racist uncle and he likes watching Hitler Youth “own the libs” then YouTube will recommend it to me too
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M137@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI’ve never gotten any right wing recommendation. There’s something you’re watching that makes that recommendation happen.
poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
victim blaming, love it
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
As someone who also doesn’t get recommended right or far right content, it’s not victim blaming to say that the algorithm thinks they want to watch those kinds of things.
The algorithm is shit. But there’s something about their activity, when filtered through the algorithm, results in those suggestions. This is just a statement of fact.
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Right, and it has nothing to do with right-wing media groups paying Youtube to promote their content, no matter what
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
This isn’t at all what I implied. I really don’t understand the hostility here.
It shouldn’t be controversial to say that Google is trying to suggest videos to you it thinks you’ll watch. Their whole goal is to keep you watching as long as possible.
PrincessTardigrade@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My theory is that if YouTube profiles people as likely 18-45 yr old male, then they shove right wing propaganda down your throat even if you don’t align with it in any other way based on subscriptions/search history/etc.
Dragonstaff@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
It’s not necessarily their activity though.
The algorithm will include one’s demographic, location, the things the people around you watch, and other things.
People ITT do seem to be taking “something about their activity” more harshly than it was meant. An innocuous video like fly fishing will lead to right wing content.
Fit me for a tinfoil hat, if you’d like, but I don’t think it’s just about what they think you want to watch. These services are controlled by right wing techbro nut jobs and use their platforms to proselytize.
MotoAsh@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
No, you’re just being an ignorant fuck, and yes, victim blaming.
All it takes is getting “news” as one of the terms feeding in to it, and you end up with those fucks getting recommended. It has absolutely nothing to do with questionable watch decisions unless you’re such a massive troglodyte that you’d blame someone for clicking on anything remotely correlated with current events.
Arcka@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
You gotta love how getting suggested content they don’t like from the recommendation engine means they’re a victim.