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Re:YouTube’s Rabbit Hole of Radicalization [pdf] by sandworm101 on Sunday December 29, 2019 @03:49AM (#21904885)
Whether it works one way or the other, I find what it recommends to me very disturbing.

Example: I'm a former rock climber and am very interested in knot and knot-tying. I watched some vids on hemp ropes, including "braiding" strands of rope. That points me to a video on hair braiding, which I watch as I do find it mildly interesting, a knot system that won't bind into a mess. Now youtube is recommending me very odd videos of little girls doing makeup and gymnastics. And all the static ads are suddenly only dating aps, "find flirty women in your area" junk.

What do I need to watch to get out of this inappropriate category?

Re:YouTube’s Rabbit Hole of Radicalization [pdf] by ZeroGravitas on Sunday December 29, 2019 @05:49AM (#21905267)
I think your Google account has a page where it tells you what it thinks your interested in and lets you opt out of mistakes. Not used it in a while so it may have changed.
Re:YouTube’s Rabbit Hole of Radicalization [pdf] by wcoenen on Sunday December 29, 2019 @07:35PM (#21909755)
> What do I need to watch to get out of this inappropriate category

Nothing, just tap the three dots on wrongly recommended videos and then "not interested" or "don't recommend channel". The recommendation algorithm might need more than one data point but it will catch on eventually.

Re:YouTube’s Rabbit Hole of Radicalization [pdf] by duskwuff on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @05:46PM (#21931274)
The recommendation algorithm can be really bad at taking negative feedback. It'll sometimes stop recommending videos from a specific source when you give negative feedback, but once it's decided you might be interested in a topic, getting it to stop recommending videos related to that topic feels impossible.

The only reliable way to get it to stop recommending inappropriate content is to delete the videos that triggered those recommendations from your viewing history.

Re:YouTube’s Rabbit Hole of Radicalization [pdf] by suby on Sunday December 29, 2019 @12:24PM (#21907086)
Perhaps removing it from your watch history? There should be some ui somewhere on yt to do this, or at the very least there used to be.

Personally, Youtube seems to only recommend me mainstream media now (CNN, MSNBC, even The Daily Show). It's better than pushing me towards right wing independent media like Sargon and Ben Shapiro, which is what it used to do every chance it got, but I very much don't want to watch either option. As a Bernie Sanders supporter, I'm not exactly wanting what either of them are pushing. It's not that I want an echochamber, but it'd be nice to have political commentary which did not try to either obviously lie, or selectively tell the truth in order to paint a false narrative.