Anyone else ever noticed how there is no longer an option to permanently reject or completely disable an option anymore?
Every 3 weeks I get a popup in MS teams (yeah I know, but it’s for work, nothing I can do about it), that asks me if I want to pin the AI agent tab and the only option is yes please or remind me later. What the actual fuck is this shit?
Youtube is worse. If you click “dont recommend this (far-right rage-baiting) channel” it says okay, and then leaves you alone for perhaps a week.
After, right back to square one as that channel is in your recommended feeds
Have tried to exterminate Jordan Peterson recommendations for years to no avail.
Really? I have managed to completely block a few channels from getting recommended, including one I didn’t want to block. Annoying thing is there’s no way to manage these blocks, only remove all of them at once.
Your clicks say no, but your algorithm is telling me yes. 😘
And is programmed by a far right tech bro programmer or apathetic yes-man who answers to one anyways yup.
Shit like this is why freetube exists. Subscribe to the channels you want to see, get only those channels!
I’ve never gotten any right wing recommendation. There’s something you’re watching that makes that recommendation happen.
victim blaming, love it
As someone who also doesn’t get recommended right or far right content, it’s not victim blaming to say that the algorithm thinks they want to watch those kinds of things.
The algorithm is shit. But there’s something about their activity, when filtered through the algorithm, results in those suggestions. This is just a statement of fact.
You gotta love how getting suggested content they don’t like from the recommendation engine means they’re a victim.
Right, and it has nothing to do with right-wing media groups paying Youtube to disproportionately promote their content, no matter what
This isn’t at all what I implied. I really don’t understand the hostility here.
It shouldn’t be controversial to say that Google is trying to suggest videos to you it thinks you’ll watch. Their whole goal is to keep you watching as long as possible.
My theory is that if YouTube profiles people as likely 18-45 yr old male, then they shove right wing propaganda down your throat even if you don’t align with it in any other way based on subscriptions/search history/etc.
I’m right in that age range and never see apt right stuff, but I have a lot of subscriptions and my account is over a decade old 🤷 I also watch a lot leftist media lol
I’m 48 and have never seen that right wing bullshit. Guess I just never tripped across whatever criteria is it beyond just age.
No, you’re just being an ignorant fuck, and yes, victim blaming.
All it takes is getting “news” as one of the terms feeding in to it, and you end up with those fucks getting recommended. It has absolutely nothing to do with questionable watch decisions unless you’re such a massive troglodyte that you’d blame someone for clicking on anything remotely correlated with current events.