Re:YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation
by ratww on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:18PM
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Related content, sure, but the problem with extremist videos in Youtube (at least for the GP, but also for me and my friends) is that they pop up out of nowhere.
Re:YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation
by cwhiz on Thursday October 15, 2020 @04:25PM
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I think the suggestions are insidious and lead to binge viewing by design. However, adults are adults, and they can make their own decisions. I am okay with suggestions in general but maybe they should be completely removed for news or political content. And they should be removed for kids accounts.
It should not be possible to search for a Biden or Trump speech and half an hour later, through suggestion surfing alone, you are viewing alt-right or antifa extremist content.
I dunno, there's value in suggesting related content. If I subscribe to a woodworking channel, and Youtube suggests other woodworking content... that doesn't seem like a problem.