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.
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.
Very nice! Thanks, Google!
I really feel bad for kids watching funny animal videos then this shit shows up.
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.
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.
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.
I mean, people have done this with their own kids. Not that it makes either situation better, just unsurprising.
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.
