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Huschke@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Before anyone rails on OP too much let me tell you this. My shorts feed was full of tech stuff. Then one day I clicked on a hot girl and watched a few of the shorts. Big mistake. Now even though I’m not clicking on them again my feed looks like OPs.

I guess the lesson here is. Never click on these shorts ever if you don’t want to get spammed by them.

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Horrible_Goblin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
agree, I do have some other things in my feed, but I’d definitely say the algorithm has certain preferences.

Probably has to do with most of my interests being pretty nice compared to ‘ooh pretty girl’. So when it compares what I click on it’s easier to find high frequency recommendations based on other peoples likes. I know fuck all about the algo that makes feeds, but my guess is that’s how it works.

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- Huschke@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Good point.
  
  There is probably also a lot more of these “pretty girl” videos than “5 Fun Facts About JavaScript” or “Here is a Mistake Everyone Makes in C” so it’s easier for the algorithm to serve them.
  
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  - Horrible_Goblin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    exactly! its not so much that the algo is skewed against us (although…), but mostly the content it has available to it and our lizard brains in general that arn’t helping. (or rather out desire to win the popularity contest and thus manipulate it in a way the algo is sensitive to). Because 90% of the ‘pretty girl’ videos wouldn’t have these stereotypical clickbait dames in them if it didn’t work in the first place
    
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AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s what it looks like when I’m logged out. It’s just a bunch of nerd shit when I’m logged in. Don’t click the tits, not even once.

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- CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Don’t click the tits, not even once.
  
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- Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Soon, titty recommendation-free Google accounts will be a hot commodity.
  
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Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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Mango@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think it’s been done for a minute, but YouTube definitely thought I was a furry for a hot minute.

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someacnt_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Thank god my feed is filled with dogs, kittens and birbs instead of this shit

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muzzle@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think the real lesson is: do not login and purge your cookies and browser storage regularly.

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- Imhotep@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Also Freetube, Newpipe
  
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