Definite green flag for the video. Red flag for the girl, because who the fuck asks about that?
It’s not the worst idea to see if someone you’re interested in generally aligns with your interests and hobbies and isn’t one of those “hidden” right wing nut cases
YouTube’s algorithm is garbage though, so that information is worthless. Pretty sure it pushes right wing stuff on anyone remotely interested in politics regardless of affiliation. As for me, my watch history is off, so that isn’t possible in the first place.
I think they flagged me as a gun nut enthusiast because my feed is literally nothing but gun videos. I am American but live in Europe; one of the reasons I moved here is because of the lack of guns!
Oh God, for a while YouTube kept trying to give me right wing videos. You watch one tool review from someone you never heard of before, and all of a sudden, you start getting trad wife videos. Had to install a 3rd party channel blocker to deal with it.
Twitter feels a hardcore far-right recommendation engine. YouTube thinks I’m OK, and want to watch Technology Connections (correct) and Colbert (correct).
YT algorithm seems to do alright by me, I’d say for me personally it recommends videos that I have at least a passing interest in about 80% of the time. The other 20 is like old car videos (Seriously I’m the furthest from a “car guy”, I’m not a fuckcars member either, but my interest in the non-tech side of cars is non existent other than “tiny explosions make car go”) and just generally uninteresting stuff.
What it doesn’t do is recommend any right wing crap so ig I got that going for me
Now Twitter otoh, it’s like non stop right wing bullshit and very little interesting stuff. Which btw wasn’t like that before the Elon takeover, my interaction with Twitter before and after is about the same (very little) so the recommendation algorithm shifted completely on its own after his takeover…
It seems fairly solid for me.
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interesting comp sci concept
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shorts: PCB manufacturing, legal eagle, 3d printing, game changer
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“a man ate 120 prebiotic gummies and this is what happened to him”
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lock picking lawyer
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A cover of a Rush song
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Sam O’Nella
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Zach Freedman
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Vaush
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Ben Finegold lecture
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“the war against tumbleweeds” history deserves to be remembered.
Pretty damn solid. I’d go for any of those and I ain’t afeard to admit it.
I dont know, thats a pretty good way of a third Party vibecheck thats Not too intrusive
Except for the fact that the recommendations are completely FUBAR.
My YouTube viewing is mostly vocal coach reaction videos, British comedy and music videos. Bit weird and nerdy, sure, but harmless.
I was careless enough to click an unmarked link shared by a far right troll during a lemmy argument ONCE over half a year ago and I’m still getting recommended Jordan Peterson clips and other such garbage every time I watch something on YouTube rather than NewPipe or SmartTube.
That’s not a bug BTW, that’s a feature of the recommendations algorithm working as intended.
I’d show a partner my subscription list, but they’d have to listen to my explanations of which ones I watch, which are left over from when I was interested in that or that
Not because they’re embarrassing or anything, just I don’t really watch the coffee equipment review channels since choosing a coffee system, and wouldn’t want to be mistaken for someone who still wastes hours trying to choose how to coffee
It isn’t a good test, because YouTube algorithms are shitty. For example, I disagree with Ben Shapiro probably 90% of the time and think he’s an odious troll, but because I watched him in a debate once, YT pushed videos of him for months after.
It’s actually a hidden test - she doesn’t care about the recommendations but wants to see if you’re using ReVanced.
I use YouTube specifically to dive into the right wing conservative anti-science rabbit hole. I think it important to understand how many of those people there are and what they believe. I also find it extremely entertaining, in a “this is incredibly sad” kind of way. I have fox news and evolution debunking videos in my recommendations.
Watching nutjob conspiracy videos is a great pleasure of mine. Flat Earthers are so entertaining, second only to the mountains are the fossilized limbs of miles tall trees that once existed people.
They did exist, but there where only two. They shone and lit up the sky, the golden one named Laurelin and the silver one Telperion. From their light the gems called Silmarils where created and after the death of the trees by Ungoliant their last surviving life in the form of a fruit and a flower was put into the sky becoming what we now call the Sun and the Moon
O no
For those that don’t know this actually could have happened. The idea of Big Bird being on the Challenger was floated around by the big wigs.
I genuinely don’t know how a potential date would react to this lol
