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fiend_unpleasant ,
@fiend_unpleasant@lemmy.world avatar

Google has more info on you that any other company on the planet… they know what you are into. You private tabs were never really private.

Gabu ,

First, why do you even have a shorts feed? Get rid of that trash. Second, stop clicking on porn and it’ll stop recommending you porn.

Everythingispenguins ,

But how are you going to watch porn if you don’t click on it /s

Gabu ,

Psst. There are other sites where that’s also available, for free, with better quality.

AA5B ,

That’s a big part of the complaint. I’ve certainly never used YouTube for porn. It’s annoying in general but it’s not a good place for porn so all they’re doing is making it more annoying for any other use

menemen ,
@menemen@lemmy.world avatar

Depends on whatever psychological profile google has created for you I guess. Currently mine is mostly about exotic guns, because I found that fascinating for a while. I don’t own any guns and I am not a supporter of lax gun laws. But google does google things.

intensely_human ,

You bastard LAX is a major international airport. We can’t afford to have lax security there.

menemen ,
@menemen@lemmy.world avatar

I am not a native english speaker. But according to the dictionary lax meand loose or casual. Is it uncommon?

woop_woop ,

You are correct, but LAX is also the Los Angeles airport code. He’s just fuckin with you

sheridan ,
@sheridan@lemmy.world avatar

My shorts feed mostly consists of videos about the signs of depression and mechanical keyboards.

swayevenly ,

You might want to stay away from mechanical keyboards.

FreakinSteve ,

My FB has loads of this and I am convinced it’s because someone in my friends list is going wild on Asian cam girls

Sizzler ,

Someone is the asian cam girl

notTheCat ,

I have my YouTube history off and before they disabled shorts feed for people with no history this is how it looked like, creepy af

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA ,
@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

Mine is hydraulic press and video game shit. Idk dude.

Socsa ,

Yeah buddy that’s definitely on you mine is all science and homestead content.

pjwestin ,
@pjwestin@lemmy.world avatar

Here’s my secret trick for making YouTube usable again:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/40a0cb25-46fe-485b-a4cb-6b083f4d719d.jpeg

Jesusaurus ,

I’d like to do that but that’s also how YouTube indicates which videos you’ve already watched, which YouTube will frequently re-serve in your recommendations.

pjwestin ,
@pjwestin@lemmy.world avatar

Oh, don’t worry, reccomendations will be dead too! Fun fact, I turned off my Watch History 5+ years ago, but 6 months ago YouTube decided they, “needed,” my history to give me recommendations. I decided that was fine, so now the Homepage tab is disabled, the Shorts tab is disabled, and now I just have a subscription list from creators I like! I still get related videos when watching a video, and that’s more than adequate to discover new content. I don’t have time to watch all my subscriptions anyway, so if YouTube can’t reccomend 30 videos I’ve never seen before under every video I watch, what do I care?

_dev_null ,
@_dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz avatar

I do something similar, but I guess scorched earth edition:

  • Only use firefox, no chrome or chromium variants
  • Never signed in to my google account (only have it to keep a gmail forward going for old ass subscriptions)
  • Have firefox configured to only keep whitelisted sites’ cookies and data between restarts - google is not on that list
  • uBlock Origin

The last several months I started seeing that youtube screen “enable history to see recommendations” blank page when first landing, as if it was a punishment to me. It’s not. I remember all the channels I like, and it’s easy enough to keep checking back. So that blank screen is actually a nice bonus to me.

pjwestin ,
@pjwestin@lemmy.world avatar

It’s amazing how Google thinks giving you the content you actually want to see is some kind of punishment, especially when 90% of the other content is sweaty needs whining about how woke Hollywood is.

Bruncvik ,
@Bruncvik@lemmy.world avatar

On my subscription page, it shows shorts from my subscribed channels. On my main page, it’s girls in bikinis playing on a guitar, violin or drums. I wantch a lot of independent musicians doing instrumental covers, but I don’t recall seeing any of them wearing skimpy clothing.

I guess it’s sort of like facebook, to increase engagement. I stopped visiting there about a year ago, but I didn’t close my account. I now get one friend recommendation daily, and it’s always sexy looking girls I’ve never heard of. These sites register me as male, so they always combine my interests with sexy females, to entice me to spend more time there.

Anamnesis ,

Mine is entirely alt right “comedians” and helldivers 2. I’m pretty sure the algorithm thinks I wholeheartedly endorse the SuperEarth ideology.

Classy ,

Instagram is way more aggressive. I can’t search for anyone on there without being blasted with highly questionable content and softcore

Aux ,

Search for cats for a week or so and you’ll only see cats.

Classy ,

Can’t decide if it’s worth the effort to search for cats or just abandon ig

Aux ,

Cats are always worth it!

General_Shenanigans ,

My YouTube is well-trained, but this is how my Instagram is. Didn’t use it or follow anybody on it for years. Recently took to scrolling and watching funny dog videos on there. I was showing my GF a funny pupper and accidentally tapped the search loupe at the bottom. BOOM. Bouncing boobies and butts covered my screen. I just kind-of stared at it in disbelief, saying “What the hell?” She got a laugh out of it. I guess this is a big part of instagram now.

graeghos_714 ,

If youtube shows me anything but music video’s in my home page I tag them as do not like and don’t show this type of content

vonbaronhans ,

More of a you think, I think. My shorts feed mostly comedy stuff, DND stuff, art stuff, and music stuff. Well, and the odd Christian preacher, which I assume gets wrapped up with the atheism content I also see.

dual_sport_dork ,
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

The algorithm makes sense to me, in that on my main PC I pretty much exclusively watch nerd shit on youtube. Tech stuff, 3D printing, machinery, motorcycles, that sort of thing. Youtube therefore probably assumes I am male, so in my Shorts feed seems to be comprised of about 90% boobies, and 10% clips about guns.

But then the algorithm doesn’t make sense to me, because on my living room PC we pretty much exclusively watch cat videos, bird videos, and videos-for-cats (the ones with all birds and squirrels and stuff), How Ridiculous, and Gavin Free. The Shorts feed there is also roughly 90% boobies, but in fairness the remaining 10% appears to be cats.

(Neither instance is logged in to a Google account or anything.)

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