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Re: Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube

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Unfortunately things are converging on the Chinese model. Young people in the US have been so brainwashed against anything really critical of the government that they are literally earnestly requesting political censorship.

How so? They are changing how recommendations work, they aren't removing videos based on agenda. I am also wondering how the brainwashing comment comes into play here, just because people do not believe in a conspiracy theory doesn't mean they are brainwashed. I also do not remember ever asking to be censored.

The recommendations determine what people see. People in this thread are asking youtube remove content from their feed that does not tailor to their worldview. The problem is that the worldview many young people have is highly dictated by the government and any serious accusations toward the government are labeled as conspiracy. Conspiracy is auotomatically associated with insanity. The reason I use an extreme word like brainwashing is because many people have been given such a strong bias that it is impossible for them to accept the possibility of serious criminal immoral activities by their government.

Re: Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube

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I banned thousands of channels in Russian language, but Youtube never stop attempts to convince me to watch an another video about Putin or mighty Russia.

How to ban all videos per country of origin or/and per language?

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Moreover, how to bless my native language in Youtube and Google?

Re: Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube

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It's worth noting that this blog post appeared less than 24 hours after BuzzFeed News posted an article explicitly highlighting the conspiracy theories in the recommended section: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/down-y... I helped contribute to that article, feel free to ask any questions!

Have you investigated their rabbit hole for children? YT for Kids simply needs to die. They are evil.

Agreed! What I have found is that most legitimate popular YT kids content (Blippi, Pinkfong, etc.) is also available repackaged and included in Amazon Prime. I've been using that for most kids content instead, as it's not just sponsored toy unboxing crap and I don't need to worry about weird auto-playing recommendations or commercials.

Re: Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube

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It does seem to be getting better, for a long while I had to make sure to clear my history of any conservative leaning videos or I'd end up down a rabbit hole. Too many and all of a sudden its bloody flat earth videos and other insane conspiracies. Made it very difficult to try and watch a balanced set of videos.

This doesn't match reality. I've watched lots of conservative videos and I've never seen anything about flat Earth or "insane conspiracy theories". Honestly this comment thread seems like trying to build a narrative bridge between straightforward right-leaning content and bizarre conspiracies. The goal is to use censorship of bizarre conspiracies to justify censoring right-leaning content by conflating the two. I'm v…

Conspiracy theories are, for the most part, a right-wing thing.

Unless you can give me examples of conspiracy theories and their peddlers on level of Alex Jones for the far left.

Re: Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube

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It's worth noting that this blog post appeared less than 24 hours after BuzzFeed News posted an article explicitly highlighting the conspiracy theories in the recommended section: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/down-y... I helped contribute to that article, feel free to ask any questions!

How does one report videos to Youtube that violate their policies and actually get them to do something about it. It appears one can talk about the Holocaust not being real / that people don't get killed in mass shootings in the United States all they want and keep their monitization / Superchats.

Re: Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube

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YouTube suggestions are worthless now. Used to be if you were watching "Jack cooks a 4 course meal part 2" the recommended videos would be "Jack cooks a 4 course meal part 3", Part 1, and some other videos by the same user. Now it's a host of other unrelated bullshit.

I still get the old-style suggestions from time to time. It seems like the functionality is still there to display videos related to the one you're watching, but half the time it displays the same mix of recommendations you get on the youtube homepage. I'm not sure what it is that triggers the related video recommendations instead of the "personalized" recommendations.

I went through a "This Old Tony" binge a couple months ago because i stumbled upon one of his videos and youtube kept recommending more. But that seems to be the exception rather than the norm.

Re: Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube

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For some insane reason, no matter what video I watch, I almost always get recommendations for Penn & Teller. Doesn’t matter that I don’t care about that even a little bit, and haven’t watched one of their bits for years. Doesn’t matter that I was just watching a technical tutorial. Doesn’t matter that I was just listening to a music video. Doesn’t matter if I just played a Thomas and Friends video for my kid. I mean, wtf? I want a “why am I seeing this recommendation” button at this point, because my curiosity has gotten the better of me and I want to see how this magic trick is done. Oh, hey, wait a minute...

Re: Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube

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YouTube suggestions are worthless now. Used to be if you were watching "Jack cooks a 4 course meal part 2" the recommended videos would be "Jack cooks a 4 course meal part 3", Part 1, and some other videos by the same user. Now it's a host of other unrelated bullshit.

I was curious why this is happening now. Someone mentioned it may be because I was using an adblocker or had privacy settings on google too high, I haven’t checked.

Currently I see absolutely zero related content next to the current video I’m watching, from the current user or the subject matter.

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