I fucked up my algo watching animal grooming and cute cat videos. Funny enough something I like to watch because it's soothing has turned into something that ruins my day.
Kind of fucked that people are using animal abuse for clicks.
I use YouTube enhancement suite and have cinema mode always on. I can't see recommended videos, I can't see comments and I can't see the thumbnail. When I can I just use VLC though.
In order to use YouTube I need:
DF YouTube (Distraction Free) - no sidebar, no recommendations at the end of the video
Clickbait Remover for Youtube - thumbnails are a couple seconds into the video, titles are in all lower case
Hide shorts for Youtube™
ClearURLs - gets rid of tracking from URLs
Decentraleyes - I'm not positive but I'm pretty sure I need it
uBlockOrigin - ad blocker that you can also use to delete elements that it misses otherwise
SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships
Shit is fucking crazy, comrade
Unhook replaces the function of DF and Hide Shorts, in addition to a few more nice options for hiding algo-slop. would highly recommend it! also Dearrow, which was made by the developer of SponsorBlock. it does the same thing as Clickbait Remover, but with added customization and community submitted replacements.
Just installed them. Didn't realize how much I was advertised to in the home page
I really feel bad for kids watching funny animal videos then this shit shows up.
gotta train them early to be sociopaths. after all, how else will they succeed in capitalist society?
Ch!nlords call it "numbing" and do it on purpose to themselves and each other. I'm pretty sure at least some of Google's workers are also ch!nlords.
I’m pretty sure at least some of Google’s workers are also ch!nlords.
There was a post here months ago about an official statement from some suit at Google claiming how they aren't a political platform and other handwaving capitalist bullshit in response to their employees protesting Google's supportive relationship with Israel. Screenshots from some social media platform for techbros were posted wherein this topic was being discussed, just despicable reactionary shit from everyone involved. My memory of it may be exaggerated by the rage I felt but it made me think of a fucking /pol/ thread exclusively populated by Silicon Valley type neckbeards. Google and Microsoft were among the companies these filth were working for.
I previously tried to find the post with search but haven't had luck.
There finding people who put animals in bad situations only to rescue them on video for clicks
I was gunna comment this too, it’s becoming a real serious problem. These disgusting people saw how lucrative these animal rescue videos have become and have started intentionally putting these animals (usually young puppies and kittens) in danger and hurting them only to act like they’re “saving” them. It’s so horrific.
Its crazy. Those vids have millions of views. Then others see this as a lane and do it too
I mean, people have done this with their own kids. Not that it makes either situation better, just unsurprising.
Exploit the kids for clicks I know of. Putting them in danger in similar Idk but wouldn't be surprised
Whenever i search for some somewhat obscure videos, like for an uncommon bass guitar or a highly regional dish, i get recommended horrible videos because the algo gets bored or gives up? I dunno. I was just looking a sound sample for an Ibanez bass guitar from 1974, i didn't need to see the thumbnail for a youtube short of some guy cutting his face off. No thank you.
When I look up obscure stuff it just spits out right-wing outrage channels complaining a out wokeness and the like.
It always shows up as a random playlist, too. No idea what would prompt it.
Whenever i search for some somewhat obscure videos, like for an uncommon bass guitar or a highly regional dish, i get recommended horrible videos because the algo gets bored or gives up?
I think that the algo works by spotting correlation patterns in a "people who watched x also watched y" kind of way, so if you're looking at something really obscure, small aberrations and maybe even individual histories can distort the resulting recommendations because it just has fewer accounts to pull from. Just speculation.
Yeah I wish I knew why it does that. I know if you just put in gibberish sometimes it comes back with like beheading thumbnails.
It's even more annoying because it's like, i got tired of people shoving these videos in my face 15 years ago, i don't need my own computer to be doing it too.
I have done okay fixing my algo by reporting anything and everything that is even remotely offensive to me. Google seems to get the hint pretty quick that not only do I not want to engage in that content, I'm going to bog down their reporting algo with reports about it.
Same, really wish there was a macro app for it so I didn't always have to individually select the category of what is offensive on the video
I'm sick and tired of having to consciously curate my feed to avoid being provided horrors beyond humanity flooding to my recommends list by the fucking torment nexus
Gonna have to watch out for this, watch funny animal videos with my kid on my phone sometimes before bedtime.
It's kind of insidious because the video thumbnails don't break any rules and the videos themselves are usually about rescues, but they use stills from the video of the animal not well for clicks.
Some fuckwad with a transphobic avatar and alt-right shit for their comments was re-posting Agu videos to gather clicks so they could lead people down the pipeline. Reported and blocked the channel, but I doubt anything will come of it.
There's this former cop and veteran who was making Great Replacement videos and doing TV/movie reactions. He's still up and running a year after his blatant copyright violations. Absolutely worthless moderation that can't even do oppressive capitalism right.
the precursor to me seeking out piped.video and nadeko and all that was fully divesting from the yt algorithm. its such crap. i used that Unhook addon to remove all the recommendations, autoplays, and "inapt search results" (yeah, they actually just put recommended videos in the middle of every search result because fuck you)
goddamn i have barely been watching youtube lately but im still mad
Reject YouTube algorithm*: https://unhook.app/
* Not open source
