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Re:Go through your family's phone settings and turn on all t... by Larrikin on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @09:38PM (#21881727)
I've had an ad blocker on my computer from day one on my work computer. From watching exclusively programming conference talks on my work computer their algorithm has seemed to guess I'm a guy so I get recommendations for programming videos, action movies, and things featuring large breasted women. Its pretty annoying for that to constantly show up when I go to the youtube homepage on my work computer when I've only ever watched conference talks.
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Re:Go through your family's phone settings and turn on all t... by o-__-o on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @11:52PM (#21882089)
I worked for a content provider who used to market their search as better than Netflix. Behind the scenes the execs would provide a daily list of what must be the top X results for specific phrases. Sometimes it was make sure some title exists as #1 in any relevant searches.

What I’m trying to say is maybe YouTube’s recommendations are very loosely based off your viewing habits, but they would rather you watch Doug demuro’s highly monetized channel over randomjoeschmoe’s excellent non-ad enabled review of a 10 year old car

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