Re:More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are 'A...
by The_President on Saturday December 27, 2025 @11:12PM
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Seems like a mistake to rely on it for anything other than entertainment or simple education. Perhaps what makes it a mistake is now it's yet another vehicle for distraction content gaming for attention space. Parents will attest, that it's wonderful to put a tablet in front of a child to instantly hush them, but then it becomes a dependency where it is increasingly harder to control outbursts of emotion without resorting to the tablet. It's become a like a drug to children, and the mistake is in seeing the process as benevolent until this far along.
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Re:More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are 'A...
by bfkwlfkjf on Sunday December 28, 2025 @01:29AM
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> Seems like a mistake to rely on it for anything other than entertainment
I disagree, shouldn't be used even for entertainment. Going to YouTube for entertainment and relying on it to guide you is how you end up being radicalised on certain topics.
Re:More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are 'A...
by The_President on Sunday December 28, 2025 @08:36AM
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Entertainment: Nothing wrong with watching the football game on it. Agree that certain other types of "entertainment" material on there is toxic.