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RecluseRamble ,

I’m so happy to be out of the dating phase of my life. I wouldn’t stand a chance with my tinfoil hat settings like deactivated recommendations, ad- and js-blocking and auto-deleting all cookies when closing a tab.

sparkle ,

What do you mean women don’t like a FOSS privacy-oriented user experience? Don’t they like going through 500 pages of documentation when Gentoo breaks only to realize all along that the problem was fixed by turning the computer off and on again?

What do you mean men don’t like that either?? What kind of place is this?!

ayyy ,

It turns out it’s harder to meet a privacy-conscious partner but they really do exist in large numbers. Back in my day the dating scene for this type was the weed dealer’s house/apartment, but now that it’s legal I don’t know what the replacement is. Probably ren fairs or lighter hobbies like kite flying meetups lol.

Emerald ,

auto-deleting all cookies when closing a tab.

You know, I would never use auto-delete cookies because I want to stay logged into sites. However I do wish there was an extension or something that would delete all cookies except for manually whitelisted sites. Then random news websites wouldn’t be able to easily track all my visits, but I could stay logged into sites.

MightyCuriosity ,

Librewolf has this built in.

Emerald ,

Any guide on how to enable this feature?

Kiuyn ,
@Kiuyn@lemmy.ml avatar

What you want is a feature that all Firefox based browser have. I am not sure about chromium based but ik that brave also have it.

setsneedtofeed ,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

Why deactivate recommendations instead of being logged into YouTube using an email that exists only for the YT account?

magnetosphere ,
@magnetosphere@fedia.io avatar

Someone asking to see my YouTube recommendations is a good test for red flags, too. I’m not interested in a relationship with someone who will judge me based on an algorithm.

lightnsfw ,

The algorithm sucks anyway. I have to clear my cookies every couple days because all my recommendations starts to turn into weird manosphere stuff and DBZ videos. Sprinkled with a small amount of shit from channels I have watched recently.

AFaithfulNihilist , (edited )
@AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world avatar

What is the reason for these two things to get grouped up and shoved down my feed? I’m a life long and very public activist for medical financial aid programs, public housing, sexual wellness, free kindergarten, hot meals, direct aid, take back the night, ada accomodations, needle exchanges, loan forgiveness, and just about every humane cause I know of. My viewing history is about as antithetical to Tate’s small dick energy as I can imagine and the anime I watch is more likely to be weird surreal stuff like Tengoku Daimakyou than some 50th year of dragon Ball

How does my feed switch from normal shorts to the incel only feed?!

fadedmaster ,
@fadedmaster@sh.itjust.works avatar

I wish I knew what I was doing because I very rarely get that stuff, unless I go to Shorts. Then that crap shows up in both the Shorts and my recommendations. After ignoring them for a couple days they go away and stay away as long as I also avoid Shorts… So maybe that’s the key?

lightnsfw ,

At best it’s because there’s just a shitload of other people that are into that stuff no matter what else they’re watching so everything ends up associated with it. At worst Youtube specifically funnels people to that kind of content.

Natanael ,

Clustering algorithms plus a focus on keeping your attention (watch time), not on quality

ayyy ,

Right wing propaganda receives heavy financial backing.

Catoblepas ,

I’ve found that being really aggressive with my not interested/do not recommends keeps it down (but not absent). In my case I assume they pop up because I like watching history and gaming videos, even though I go out of my way to avoid anyone who’s dog whistle-y or chuddy.

Natanael ,

The topic and creator based clustering of multiple interests will pollute that anyway, because they don’t care about precision and just care about keeping your attention

ByteOnBikes ,

Wait you also watch DBZ highlights and wonder what super Saiyan Piccolo would have looked like? 😍

lightnsfw ,

No. So why do they keep coming up to me? Nothing against DBZ btw.

peopleproblems ,

Most of my browser history, youtube and podcast recommendations etc. are benign.

My fear is when they ask the question “when does VR Porn become cheating?” Because I don’t think anyone can answer that one honestly and the way one would expect.

Like my brain would say “when you can smell it” but that leads down a lot of other questions that scare me.

KillingTimeItself ,

IMO if you ever ask someone whether porn is cheating, you should probably be put into an asylum and studied, because i cannot for the life of me figure out why someone would give a shit, unless it’s a shared mutual agreement between two parties, in which case, you probably wouldn’t ask that question.

It’s almost as insane as asking whether or not touching your dick counts as masturbation or not.

johny ,

A party is indeed the time and place where no jokes are made ever, no alcohol is involved, no cheesy flirting techniques occur, and everything is meant a 100% seriously always.

magnetosphere , (edited )
@magnetosphere@fedia.io avatar

Good point. I would have had to be there to see what the mood was like. She could have been funny as hell, and I’m just not picking it up from this tweet.

Edit: I just watched the video. It’s only about 8 minutes long. A great combination of funny and interesting. Recommended!

postmateDumbass ,

I did not get invited either.

Probably for the best.

gens ,

It’s hard to convey tone with text.

setsneedtofeed ,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/92cf1602-8720-4b9e-81c2-e144bd9d3005.jpeg

HubertManne ,

mine is half science and half whatever video game im trying to play so currently elden ring

Noughmad ,

My kids use my account.

So mine is a quarter space, a quarter MTG, and half Minecraft.

Xanis ,

I have ADHD.

someone opens my Youtube as a litmus test

“So we pray unto the holy beings that this child may not lose their way. For which many forsaken paths they may tred, nor what trends they may trod upon, that they alight on lightened road and partake only within golden rays.”

“Also, just, like…ignore that 3am Pokemon rabbit ahem hole I went down when overtired.”

SSJMarx ,

mine is

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Tom_Hanx_the_Actor ,

I tend to get a lot of pro wrestling recommendations too. It’s a nostalgic fix for depression.

wesker ,
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

My red flag would be showing them NewPipe, with recommendations turned completely off.

SomethingBurger ,

And subscriptions using RSS feeds instead of a YouTube account.

wesker ,
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Guilty.

Having no actual presence on social media is considered “creepy” by modern social standards, instead of what I view it as: more secure.

FederatedSaint ,

Having no actual presence on social media

I’ve got some bad news for you…

wesker ,
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I meant no actual presence on mainstream social media where I’m not using a pseudonym, and exchange profiles with the general public that I meet.

tyler ,

Forums are not social media. How is this hard to understand. Forums have existed for decades longer than social media and if you include forums in the definition of social media then you literally by definition include every comment section on every blog, news site, and even things like the FCC request for comments from citizens.

It’s absolutely idiotic to include forums in that definition. You make the definition so wide as to be useless.

jawa21 ,
@jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

People have gotten confused and declared that any internet based activity that involves interaction is social media. Social media is centered on users (you follow other people, not topics, and people for whatever crazy reason use their real name), whereas there is absolutely no real reason to do that on a forum.

KillingTimeItself ,

if forums are social media, or the internet more broadly is social media, would that include shit like, newspapers? And like, the library?

Emerald ,

Social media is centered on users (you follow other people, not topics

This is the exact reason I never became interested in Mastodon. Following people just isn’t my style. The only social media I use is YouTube (without an account) because apparently Lemmy isn’t social media.

FoxyGrandpa ,

If that’s considered creepy then I’m john wayne gacy

hydration9806 ,

I’ve had the opposite response. Generally I get a “good on ya, I should really delete it too”

jubilationtcornpone ,

I find avoiding social media helps reduce encounters with the insane side of people who somehow appear to be relatively normal in real life.

For instance, I actually like my inlaws in real life, despite having some very different views than they do. On Facebook however, they’re complete fucking idiots that I wouldn’t give the time of day because they would just argue with me about it.

wesker , (edited )
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

It’s odd how that proxy allows people to act feral. It’s like the behavior of a dog behind a fence.

Though I’ll admit to trolling a little bit here and there, so maybe I’m not the best example.

scrion ,

They ask for your search history then

wesker ,
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

My browser clears private data at the end of every session.

scrion ,

Same, but you were talking about NewPipe. I assume you use that on your phone.

And while you can disable the search history there, too, it often is convenient not to have to type the name of that thing you want to listen to while you’re driving, so many people leave it enabled.

wesker ,
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I just leverage playlists or bookmarks, typically. But while driving, I play my FLAC library off a thumbdrive.

hakunawazo ,

YSK you could also swipe single entries away in your Newpipe search history.

Viking_Hippie ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/64cdd6cd-88cc-46e8-ba7c-5c677ec521bc.jpeg

CorrodedCranium ,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

Or switching profiles in GrapheneOS so I can look at my Google apps

_____ , (edited )

The brain rotted mind doesn’t understand the lack of an infinite pit of o-face reaction videos to pick from.

pineapplelover ,

Newpipe has recommendations?

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

"I only watch youtube through libretube, invidious and freetube

laranis ,

Probably its own kind of red flag.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

It’s called finding a shared interest!

Ilovethebomb ,

I’d definitely lose interest in a conversation with someone who responded with that.

They’re bad enough online.

ByteOnBikes ,

I’m glad I’m old enough where I can actively pretend like I don’t know how to use technology.

Like I was at a bar, and some weirdo asked if I was on Facebook and I shrugged and said I don’t understand technology and they go, “Totally makes sense at your age!”

KillingTimeItself ,

you dropped this king "

laranis ,

You will address Henry by his rightful title of Emperor. Surely, he hath earned it righteously, not pulled it from the ether at the behest of a website.

credo ,

So… what would happen?

I know you watched.

Duamerthrax ,

It’s not. I spend too much time vetting and blocking right wing channels despite never watching any while logged in.

Natanael ,

I have watch history turned off precisely to avoid getting personal recommendations because they have always sucked for me

mayo ,
@mayo@lemmy.world avatar

I usually binge a specific channel in a new subject then youtube blasts me with whatever they think will engage me the most and it’s always the trashiest content. Big red arrows, all caps, surprised faces, misleading thumbnails.

Duamerthrax ,

I once left a live stream open when I went to bed and the next day, I had train videos on my recommendations. They had raided into a train live stream.

KillingTimeItself ,

we love a good alternate history hub video.

Although if that were my recommendations they would be let down because i turned them off. You can’t one up me, i am simply one step ahead of you.

Etterra ,

I use NewPipe so there’s no recommendations there.

sunzu ,

Really open the eyes on the shot algo shoves into your face sometimes.

Fucking creeps.

Sabata11792 ,

I would never be in this situation in the first place.

proof

Harvey656 ,

Filipino frank is a huge red flag.

Sabata11792 ,

Dose a flag really have color if no one is around to perceive it?

Harvey656 ,

Schrodinger flag.

zakobjoa ,
@zakobjoa@lemmy.world avatar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2330f5c0-09bc-46ea-9cf4-515b3c153e0a.png

mlg ,
@mlg@lemmy.world avatar

I like how the top video is actually a normal video but the thumbnail makes it look like a meme post lol

Someonelol ,
@Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Thought Slime is pretty okay. Green flag from me.

rambling_lunatic ,

You and I have similar tastes.

Nuke_the_whales ,

My first recommendation is from that Townsend YouTube channel where the guy dresses up like it’s 1776 and cooks food from that time period with a funny authentic 1776 kitchen and cookware

setsneedtofeed ,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fa334b7a-56b8-475d-98b6-e78b638b6169.jpeg

tourist ,
@tourist@lemmy.world avatar

perhaps it would serve humanity greatly if I do not reproduce

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/581f9ac0-3a31-419b-8986-5c86a362c1af.jpeg

devilish666 ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4fe83330-ccec-4ef5-9ea6-cf2cf3bf0fc5.jpeg

Bishma ,
@Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

This was the first video YT suggest to me on Christmas day last year.

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