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

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.

  • bob_wiley@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I noticed when I went to a hotel that the recommended videos for a logged out user were drastically different than my own. For example, I always found it a bit odd that Mr Beast is the #1 person on YouTube, yet I almost never get recommended his videos, but they were all over the TV in the hotel.

    I decided to try a hard reset. I deleted my entire watch history, start at 0 again. I also deleted all but maybe 5 of my subscriptions. Almost nothing changed.

        • Asymptote@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          I’m hopefully wrong because it might have GDPR implications, but on the other hand they’re probably using an LLm and once theyre on the back of that tiger they cnt let go of the tail.

    • djmarcone@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I didn’t even know who he was until a few months ago. Yet he is the top channel.

      YouTube knows w