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Re:Why Yewtu.be Was Down? by TechBro8615 on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @09:35PM (#36594595)
I've pressed the "X" on those damn things like a dozen times, and even said "yes" to the modal asking me if I was sure I wanted to hide them. Yet they still appear. The default selection also uses the most transparently sexualized thumbnails with BOOBS! just begging me to click. Admittedly, I sometimes do - not for the boobs, but for the comments which inevitably make jokes about the boobs in the thumbnail.
Re:Why Yewtu.be Was Down? by Aerroon on Thursday July 06, 2023 @11:52AM (#36617894)
I find that shorts pretty regularly suggest content I would like and it seems to largely depend on what I watch even outside of shorts. Ie when I watch a lot of dancing videos I get a lot of Shorts feed containing that, same with Korean or Japanese content.
Re:Why Yewtu.be Was Down? by TechBro8615 on Thursday July 06, 2023 @06:09PM (#36623855)
That's definitely not the case for me, unfortunately. It seems like the selection of Shorts presented to me on the homepage has never evolved past its default content recommendations. Maybe I opted out of something at some point and they can't use my watch history for Shorts suggestions.