They sell this crapp feature, that basically serves only to sponsor right wing media for no reason, as if it was a greate and modern feature, and as if it was worth enough to give Google the commercial right to my activity on YouTube. This shit is so useless that I am using only the subscriptions tab with PocketTube, since the default one is also crap.
They’re doing you a favor, tbh. Just go straight to the subscription page and skip out on all the algorithmic bull they push.
Polar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I’ve literally never seen right wing media on YouTube. Maybe stop watching stuff that makes YouTube think you’re into right wing media?
PythagoRascal@lemmy.world 1 year ago
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s even worse in the shorts algorithm.
All of the content I consume in YouTube shorts is like cute animals and food related, but I still keep getting “BEN SHAPIRO OWNS LIBERAL” and “Jordan Peterson gives his very important opinion on something he doesn’t know shit about” at least ~10% of the time.
kautau@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Additionally, if you do end up on some right wing video, don’t downvote it. It just tells the algorithm you will engage with that content
delirium@lemmy.world 1 year ago
More than that, I never saw political or controversial “influencer” content on YouTube at all. It’s mostly tech reviews, memes, travel and photography videos, just exactly what I watch.
Algorithms are so good these days it’s kinda funny to see someone being angry about being offered to watch the same stuff they usually watch
whodoctor11@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What part of what I said about my history being shut down did you not read? Also, of course, the left-wing videos that I watch, plus the physics channel where the host is also left-wing, plus the investigation channel where the host is also left-wing, plus the audio-story channel where, guess what, the host is also from the left, plus the channel that publishes old movies in the public domain, plus the songs with leftist content that I listen to, all of this adds up to the obvious fact that I am from the right! But of course, the algorithm knows better what I am. It’s not like Google is behind several scandals about top tier advertisers being right-wing think thanks! (A parenthesis, I am talking about my country, Brasil, in the US Google maybe have Dem Party bias, but also the Dem Party is only left-wing in the crazy minds of Americans)
Sephtis-6@kbin.social 1 year ago
I do get some political(left and right) media on YouTube but that's because I activity watch it sometimes. Before i never got it
The best way to stop getting it is to indeed stop interacting with it.
whodoctor11@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I already have all the political content in another chanell. It absolutely didn’t work.