Hi, I am a guy in early thirties with a wife and two kids and whenever I go on youtube it always suggests conservative things like guys dunking on women, ben shapiro reacting to some bullshit, joe rogan, all the works. I almost never allow it to go to that type of video and when I do it is either by accident or by curiosity. My interest are gaming, standup comedy, memes, react videos, metalurgy, machining, blacksmithing, with occasional songs and videos about funny bullshit and I am not from america and I consider myself pretty liberal if I had to put it into terms used in america. But european liberal, so by american standards a socialist. Why does it recommend this shit to me, is this some kind of vector for radicalization of guys in my category? Do you have similar experience?

  • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    I am constantly bombarded with Jordan Peterson videos despite disliking them and telling the algorithm to show less like this.

    I’m not sure how it profiles people, but it sucks.

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      1 year ago

      Go into your watch history and remove them after disliking it. I find removing stuff from my watch history to have a bigger impact over disliking stuff. You can also have YouTube stop recommending specific channels to you. Odds are if they’re posting Jordan Peterson content, you’re not missing anything of value by blocking them

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        1 year ago

        The thing is I’m not sure what I’ve watched that’s triggering the JP spam.

        Maybe I need to just nuke my entire history and start again.