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Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole | The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that(www.theatlantic.com)

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Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole | The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that::The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.

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Kuya@lemmy.world
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I’ve been watching tutorials on jump ropes and kickboxing. I do watch YouTube shorts, but lately I’m being shown Andrew Tate stuff. I didn’t skip it quick enough, now 10% of the things I see are right leaning bot created contents. Slowly gun related, self defense, and Minecraft are taking over my YouTube shorts.

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doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Kickboxing to Andrew Tate is unfortunately a short jump for the algorithm to make, I guess

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DreadPirateShawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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If you don’t already, you can view your watch history and delete things.

I do that with anything not music related, and it keeps my recommendations extremely clean.

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Ech@lemm.ee
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I like a few Minecraft channels, but I only watch it in private tabs because I know yt will flood my account with it if I’m not careful. There is no middle ground with The Algorithm.

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MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
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Yeah it’s too much skewed by recent viewing. Even if you’re subscribed to X amount of channels about topic Y but you just watched one video on topic Z, then say goodbye to Y, you only like Z now.

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