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Re:‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked ... by KaiserPro on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @10:06AM (#25518281)
The problem I've found is that it takes some tuning to get it to stop recommending horrid clickbait, extremist recruiting fodder or just copyright fraud.

You have to actively click "not I don't like this" when you see something low quality.

This means that the average joe will be spammed by low quality shite, where as the power user will get decent recommendation.

I do have a container tab just for youtube, to avoid polluting my recommends with embedded shite.

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Re:‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked ... by shmageggy on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @01:08PM (#25520289)
Yes, this is the problem, and the article nails it. I just did all experiment to proceed it to myself too: open YouTube in a private tab, search for anything gaming related, click something random on the front page, and bam: in my recommendations "Ronda Rousey destroys feminist". Of course once you click that you're down a black hole of Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson.
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