It's not the worst idea to see if someone you're interested in generally aligns with your interests and hobbies and isn't one of those "hidden" right wing nut cases
YouTube's algorithm is garbage though, so that information is worthless. Pretty sure it pushes right wing stuff on anyone remotely interested in politics regardless of affiliation. As for me, my watch history is off, so that isn't possible in the first place.
I think they flagged me as a gun nutenthusiast because my feed is literally nothing but gun videos. I am American but live in Europe; one of the reasons I moved here is because of the lack of guns!
Oh God, for a while YouTube kept trying to give me right wing videos. You watch one tool review from someone you never heard of before, and all of a sudden, you start getting trad wife videos. Had to install a 3rd party channel blocker to deal with it.
I allways curate my watch history, if I have watched a random video outside of the main focus of my prefered categories/history, I will remove it before yt flips out
I get pushed right wing YT channels regularly. I have told YT not to recommend these specific channels repeatedly, yet I still get them. I will say most of what they recommend is, at least, is the ballpark of things I would be interested in, but it seems it goes out of its way to push right wing content on me regardless of what I specifically tell it to do.
You know, it's funny, I have NEVER been suggested Rogan. I have thought about this a few times before. With him being soooo big I am always kinda weirded out that I have never seen it in my suggestions.
YT algorithm seems to do alright by me, I'd say for me personally it recommends videos that I have at least a passing interest in about 80% of the time. The other 20 is like old car videos (Seriously I'm the furthest from a "car guy", I'm not a fuckcars member either, but my interest in the non-tech side of cars is non existent other than "tiny explosions make car go") and just generally uninteresting stuff.
What it doesn't do is recommend any right wing crap so ig I got that going for me
Now Twitter otoh, it's like non stop right wing bullshit and very little interesting stuff. Which btw wasn't like that before the Elon takeover, my interaction with Twitter before and after is about the same (very little) so the recommendation algorithm shifted completely on its own after his takeover.....
Maybe I'm old fashioned, but back in the day you didn't need third party verification for vibes, you'd just go out for coffee or similar and grok their vibe that way.
Except for the fact that the recommendations are completely FUBAR.
My YouTube viewing is mostly vocal coach reaction videos, British comedy and music videos. Bit weird and nerdy, sure, but harmless.
I was careless enough to click an unmarked link shared by a far right troll during a lemmy argument ONCE over half a year ago and I'm still getting recommended Jordan Peterson clips and other such garbage every time I watch something on YouTube rather than NewPipe or SmartTube.
That's not a bug BTW, that's a feature of the recommendations algorithm working as intended.
I'd show a partner my subscription list, but they'd have to listen to my explanations of which ones I watch, which are left over from when I was interested in that or that
Not because they're embarrassing or anything, just I don't really watch the coffee equipment review channels since choosing a coffee system, and wouldn't want to be mistaken for someone who still wastes hours trying to choose how to coffee
It was an actual possibility though. They genuinely did think about actually doing that for that mission and then for some reason didn't. So there is alternate timeline out there where that's entirely plausible. It's not a random question.
It isn't a good test, because YouTube algorithms are shitty. For example, I disagree with Ben Shapiro probably 90% of the time and think he's an odious troll, but because I watched him in a debate once, YT pushed videos of him for months after.
I didn't even watch him, I watched videos very obviously and openly critical of his horseshit. YouTube's response is to recommend direct videos from many of these fascist sucklers.
I use YouTube specifically to dive into the right wing conservative anti-science rabbit hole. I think it important to understand how many of those people there are and what they believe. I also find it extremely entertaining, in a "this is incredibly sad" kind of way. I have fox news and evolution debunking videos in my recommendations.
Watching nutjob conspiracy videos is a great pleasure of mine. Flat Earthers are so entertaining, second only to the mountains are the fossilized limbs of miles tall trees that once existed people.
They did exist, but there where only two. They shone and lit up the sky, the golden one named Laurelin and the silver one Telperion. From their light the gems called Silmarils where created and after the death of the trees by Ungoliant their last surviving life in the form of a fruit and a flower was put into the sky becoming what we now call the Sun and the Moon
I respect not being so politically tribalistic that you can recognize when a troll like him is right about something 10% of the time. That's rare on on the internet these days.
But yeah, algorithms don't seem to get that kind of nuance.
I did that along with disabling marketing data etc. Now when I open any video on YT in a new tab it redirects to their help page about monetized content.
Get really into videos of open network accessible security cams set to experimental dark ambient. Then fullow their creators down into Umbral Youtube and it's videos of tidepool cams, paracausal physics discussions and Saint Seiya AMVs set to Chilean Poetry literature class lecture notes.
I would probably counter with "you wanna see my subscriptions instead? cuz I don't fucks with no recommendations" and then she'd just walk away because she probably wasn't even talking to me in the first place
A party is a party, I’ve said way worse cringe under the influence of alcohol, especially if I was flirting with someone (which it sounds like she is).
Cooking, woodworking, and engineering over here. I think that would be ok. The prospective girlfriend may take issue with my wife though. And vice versa.
Hello, fellow "fuck you and your privacy settings" homepage enjoyer.
Seriously though, it makes me quite irrationally angry that they still have this shitty passive aggressive message on the homepage years after. Just give me my subscriptions feed instead ffs.
Lol yeah, "Recommendations not looking right to you? Turn on history for better ones!" Uh, no, I'd rather see more videos related to what I'm currently watching and not have my feed full of videos related to something I had a passing interest in in the past. If I want to go back on an old dive, I can use the search function.
Any mechanism you use to increase my engagement is attempting to monopolize my time for your profit (well, joke's on you, my ad blocker still works and I'll just stop using YouTube if you do manage to "force" me to watch ads).
Fuck that. I’ve already got a hard enough time dating while not using Instagram and Facebook. Shits gone too far. I fall asleep every night to Battlefield series of WW2 documentaries
yeah right. Have you watched that series? It’s like the greatest ww2 documentary series ever made for history lovers imo. It’s one of the few that goes into full detail about the eastern front. I put on other documentaries too though, just have to search for those that have calm deep voice that’s the right speed and I’m out in minutes. Better than everything else I’ve tried for insomnia
I get to play this YouTube game with students every time me or one of them play a clip as part of a presentation, assuming we're logged in (and we often are, as students and myself use Google Drive).
For me, I simply reveal my love of video games (and since having kids, slews of kid music) but for them it's a wild mix of ASMR, make up videos, musical tastes, and so on. Nothing too crazy yet, but its only a matter of time.
I'm grateful I at least have the foresight to use burner accounts for things like watching cringy movies (I listen to podcasts that make fun of them, so that's a thing). It'd be pretty funny if something like Pandemic 3 popped up in my feed, haha.
Somehow YouTube seems to be filtering out all the videos I play for my kid from my recommended page. I'm not complaining, but I'm surprised that it recognizes that I'm not going to choose that myself on an impulse.
My eyes get tired easily. I have tried dark mode a few times and it just gets worse. I need a bright room and a pale yellow background (#fffedf) for editing text. Also that's why ed(1) is the best editor, if I can't see the content of the file there's less text to get tired from. taps temple
The app isn't installed on my phone so they go to browser instead, page takes a moment to load because of VPN, YT either asks to log in or it asks to turn on watch history in order to get recommendations.
I know from the get-go I'm either getting rated really really highly or really low, or that the reviewer will be dumbfounded. What do you think?
I guess I'm a bit of a basic bitch. I have MKBHD, Scotty Kilmer, DarkViperAU, Jordan Howlett, StevenHe, and Scott the Woz as the first few recommendations. Also I watch YouTube on the TV/desktop and shorts on my phone.
Definite green flag for the video. Red flag for the girl, because who the fuck asks about that?
It's not the worst idea to see if someone you're interested in generally aligns with your interests and hobbies and isn't one of those "hidden" right wing nut cases
YouTube's algorithm is garbage though, so that information is worthless. Pretty sure it pushes right wing stuff on anyone remotely interested in politics regardless of affiliation. As for me, my watch history is off, so that isn't possible in the first place.
I think they flagged me as a gun
nutenthusiast because my feed is literally nothing but gun videos. I am American but live in Europe; one of the reasons I moved here is because of the lack of guns!Maybe YouTube thinks you're homesick?
Probably misses their old guns
Probably hasn't seen a "Recommended school shootings near you..." in ages.
Oh God, for a while YouTube kept trying to give me right wing videos. You watch one tool review from someone you never heard of before, and all of a sudden, you start getting trad wife videos. Had to install a 3rd party channel blocker to deal with it.
I allways curate my watch history, if I have watched a random video outside of the main focus of my prefered categories/history, I will remove it before yt flips out
Twitter feels a hardcore far-right recommendation engine. YouTube thinks I’m OK, and want to watch Technology Connections (correct) and Colbert (correct).
I get pushed right wing YT channels regularly. I have told YT not to recommend these specific channels repeatedly, yet I still get them. I will say most of what they recommend is, at least, is the ballpark of things I would be interested in, but it seems it goes out of its way to push right wing content on me regardless of what I specifically tell it to do.
I get so many Bro Jorgan videos. I say block the channel, and they still crop up. How many shills does he have repackaging his shit?
You know, it's funny, I have NEVER been suggested Rogan. I have thought about this a few times before. With him being soooo big I am always kinda weirded out that I have never seen it in my suggestions.
Where did I go wrong?!?! I'm going to have to reevaluate my whole life now
YT algorithm seems to do alright by me, I'd say for me personally it recommends videos that I have at least a passing interest in about 80% of the time. The other 20 is like old car videos (Seriously I'm the furthest from a "car guy", I'm not a fuckcars member either, but my interest in the non-tech side of cars is non existent other than "tiny explosions make car go") and just generally uninteresting stuff.
What it doesn't do is recommend any right wing crap so ig I got that going for me
Now Twitter otoh, it's like non stop right wing bullshit and very little interesting stuff. Which btw wasn't like that before the Elon takeover, my interaction with Twitter before and after is about the same (very little) so the recommendation algorithm shifted completely on its own after his takeover.....
It seems fairly solid for me.
interesting comp sci concept
shorts: PCB manufacturing, legal eagle, 3d printing, game changer
"a man ate 120 prebiotic gummies and this is what happened to him"
lock picking lawyer
A cover of a Rush song
Sam O'Nella
Zach Freedman
Vaush
Ben Finegold lecture
"the war against tumbleweeds" history deserves to be remembered.
Pretty damn solid. I'd go for any of those and I ain't afeard to admit it.
I was told conservative voices were being silenced though! Was I lied to?!
/sarcasm
I dont know, thats a pretty good way of a third Party vibecheck thats Not too intrusive
Maybe I'm old fashioned, but back in the day you didn't need third party verification for vibes, you'd just go out for coffee or similar and grok their vibe that way.
Except for the fact that the recommendations are completely FUBAR.
My YouTube viewing is mostly vocal coach reaction videos, British comedy and music videos. Bit weird and nerdy, sure, but harmless.
I was careless enough to click an unmarked link shared by a far right troll during a lemmy argument ONCE over half a year ago and I'm still getting recommended Jordan Peterson clips and other such garbage every time I watch something on YouTube rather than NewPipe or SmartTube.
That's not a bug BTW, that's a feature of the recommendations algorithm working as intended.
I'd show a partner my subscription list, but they'd have to listen to my explanations of which ones I watch, which are left over from when I was interested in that or that
Not because they're embarrassing or anything, just I don't really watch the coffee equipment review channels since choosing a coffee system, and wouldn't want to be mistaken for someone who still wastes hours trying to choose how to coffee
Might want to see if their feed is full of Tate/Peterson videos
Exactly, it’s a way to weed out guys midway through the alt right pipeline.
It was an actual possibility though. They genuinely did think about actually doing that for that mission and then for some reason didn't. So there is alternate timeline out there where that's entirely plausible. It's not a random question.
It isn't a good test, because YouTube algorithms are shitty. For example, I disagree with Ben Shapiro probably 90% of the time and think he's an odious troll, but because I watched him in a debate once, YT pushed videos of him for months after.
It's actually a hidden test - she doesn't care about the recommendations but wants to see if you're using ReVanced.
"I use ReVanced"
goosebumps
Sploosh
I didn't even watch him, I watched videos very obviously and openly critical of his horseshit. YouTube's response is to recommend direct videos from many of these fascist sucklers.
I use YouTube specifically to dive into the right wing conservative anti-science rabbit hole. I think it important to understand how many of those people there are and what they believe. I also find it extremely entertaining, in a "this is incredibly sad" kind of way. I have fox news and evolution debunking videos in my recommendations.
Also: https://youtu.be/yuoFsi2iIi0
Watching nutjob conspiracy videos is a great pleasure of mine. Flat Earthers are so entertaining, second only to the mountains are the fossilized limbs of miles tall trees that once existed people.
They did exist, but there where only two. They shone and lit up the sky, the golden one named Laurelin and the silver one Telperion. From their light the gems called Silmarils where created and after the death of the trees by Ungoliant their last surviving life in the form of a fruit and a flower was put into the sky becoming what we now call the Sun and the Moon
That is what happened on Arda you foolish Took.
I respect not being so politically tribalistic that you can recognize when a troll like him is right about something 10% of the time. That's rare on on the internet these days.
But yeah, algorithms don't seem to get that kind of nuance.
O no
what do you mean "again"
Gonna assume that's music and not a "how to"
Well I know what I'm playing at work first thing in the morning.
Ha, we have the same recommendations
For those that don't know this actually could have happened. The idea of Big Bird being on the Challenger was floated around by the big wigs.
I genuinely don't know how a potential date would react to this lol
They can only know after watching it, after all solidjj can't be categorised based on thumbnails
Solid jj is great
I got an email from Youtube about 11 years ago that simply said: "the algorithm has abandoned you."
And now whenever I go there all I get is a weird orange and green moire pattern.
Teach us how to escape the matrix like you did.
Turn off history
I did that along with disabling marketing data etc. Now when I open any video on YT in a new tab it redirects to their help page about monetized content.
https://youtu.be/LwjP8HCpE4E?si=XYyJL-P0XdJUsdDw
Get really into videos of open network accessible security cams set to experimental dark ambient. Then fullow their creators down into Umbral Youtube and it's videos of tidepool cams, paracausal physics discussions and Saint Seiya AMVs set to Chilean Poetry literature class lecture notes.
I would probably counter with "you wanna see my subscriptions instead? cuz I don't fucks with no recommendations" and then she'd just walk away because she probably wasn't even talking to me in the first place
And even if she was talking to you she’d sprint away after that response
That too
I get her point but that's kinda cringy to say out loud
And I really don't want to explain NewPipe or that I'm silently judging her for having youtube recommendations.
Most based answer 😂
A party is a party, I’ve said way worse cringe under the influence of alcohol, especially if I was flirting with someone (which it sounds like she is).
My youtube recs would mostly just out me as a huge fucking nerd who's into cooking, I think it may be a rare W.
Same, got cooking vids, gaming, anime, Manga, and leather working vids.
You giant nerd, you. :)
Not so much manga and anime on my youtube, even though I'm also a bit of a weeb.
Cooking, woodworking, and engineering over here. I think that would be ok. The prospective girlfriend may take issue with my wife though. And vice versa.
Joke's on them; I disabled history a long time ago, so YouTube can't recommend things to me now.
Hello, fellow "fuck you and your privacy settings" homepage enjoyer.
Seriously though, it makes me quite irrationally angry that they still have this shitty passive aggressive message on the homepage years after. Just give me my subscriptions feed instead ffs.
Lol yeah, "Recommendations not looking right to you? Turn on history for better ones!" Uh, no, I'd rather see more videos related to what I'm currently watching and not have my feed full of videos related to something I had a passing interest in in the past. If I want to go back on an old dive, I can use the search function.
Any mechanism you use to increase my engagement is attempting to monopolize my time for your profit (well, joke's on you, my ad blocker still works and I'll just stop using YouTube if you do manage to "force" me to watch ads).
NewPipe on the phone and smartube on the TV.
Fuck that. I’ve already got a hard enough time dating while not using Instagram and Facebook. Shits gone too far. I fall asleep every night to Battlefield series of WW2 documentaries
Actually a red flag. Like at least 25% chance they're a neonazi
yeah right. Have you watched that series? It’s like the greatest ww2 documentary series ever made for history lovers imo. It’s one of the few that goes into full detail about the eastern front. I put on other documentaries too though, just have to search for those that have calm deep voice that’s the right speed and I’m out in minutes. Better than everything else I’ve tried for insomnia
The series itself might not be a red flag, but I suspect that the recommendations from that might be because Google is stupid.
Not familiar with that series - just that a lot of 88'ers are very into WW2.
So are people that study history
Tim Piggot-Smith had such a soothing voice.
I'd say it's more of a yellow flag.
That's why I stick with Lazerpig, Animatchy and anyone they're cool with.
Lazerpig! Your 3rd or 4th favorite animal historian!
My YT recommendations are full of game lore and Warhammer 40K. I don't care about either, but Youtube really, really wants me to.
There's just so much 40k content out there. If you so much as dip your toe into it, your feed gets invaded.
I get to play this YouTube game with students every time me or one of them play a clip as part of a presentation, assuming we're logged in (and we often are, as students and myself use Google Drive).
For me, I simply reveal my love of video games (and since having kids, slews of kid music) but for them it's a wild mix of ASMR, make up videos, musical tastes, and so on. Nothing too crazy yet, but its only a matter of time.
I'm grateful I at least have the foresight to use burner accounts for things like watching cringy movies (I listen to podcasts that make fun of them, so that's a thing). It'd be pretty funny if something like Pandemic 3 popped up in my feed, haha.
Somehow YouTube seems to be filtering out all the videos I play for my kid from my recommended page. I'm not complaining, but I'm surprised that it recognizes that I'm not going to choose that myself on an impulse.
Bullet dodged.
bideo games, the onion, British comedy clips, pop sci / math
my crazy doesn't affect what I watch online
I have a bunch of Soulsborne videos and stuff about the X-Men. My wife already knows this and doesn’t care. LOL
Mine has a good amount of soulsborne stuff too, but it's like 75% chess videos these days.
I'd smash
I rarely watch youtube, but got this.
Light mode is going to scare her off, bro.
My eyes get tired easily. I have tried dark mode a few times and it just gets worse. I need a bright room and a pale yellow background (#fffedf) for editing text. Also that's why ed(1) is the best editor, if I can't see the content of the file there's less text to get tired from. taps temple
Hypothetical:
The app isn't installed on my phone so they go to browser instead, page takes a moment to load because of VPN, YT either asks to log in or it asks to turn on watch history in order to get recommendations.
I know from the get-go I'm either getting rated really really highly or really low, or that the reviewer will be dumbfounded. What do you think?
If I were dating you, I’d rate you highly. Do with that what you will. I’m pretty hawt too I think ;3
Actual no joke second video rec in my feed:
Yeah, when I became aware of that one, it got watched in a private tab in a different browser
To fight ones enemies one must know ones enemies.
Villainpedia is based.
I think so, anyway. Some people don't play video games though, I doubt they'd respect it.
Well I wouldnt be into them so thusly it would work as a solid litmus test.
Hope she likes Pete Seeger, bread tube, and educational videos, because if she doesn’t I can do better
Little Joel, Veritasium, Vaush, a perfect representation of me as a person
Little Joel is kind of a short stack, I guess.
Cringe
That flag has no color. It's a gigantic question mark somehow devoid of everything but the question.
My recommended videos are drain cleaning, lawn maintenance, wood turning, science, and meme stuff like Stephen He.
Other than the meme stuff, I imagine the girl would get the wrong idea about both my approach to chores and my scientific background.
Drain Cleaning Australia GOAT
RIPPER! You may not believe me when I say it folks, but there's NOWHERE I'd rather be than right here, clearing this drain with you.
All WWII stuff and AI recreations of speeches from leaders from the 20th century. Oh, and classic video games.
I’m boring AF.
Mine is pretty boring lol
Whatever version the patcher recommends at the time is what I download
When is the wedding?
I watched that video recently
Haha looks like it would be a red flag at first
I have a video about retro games at the top of my RSS youtube feed, does that count?
Retro Game Mechanics Explained - Why Stomping Wigglers Glitches Super Mario World
Oh, sweet, a new RGME video. I know what I'm doing for the next half hour. Thanks for the heads up!
Stomping wrigglers makes me think of sparkling wiggles…
It's a good video
I've got MythBusters and Dark Souls in my top two. What's a nerd flag?
Better than mine.
I have Secrets of the Motorway, the M25. You know what, I'm going to watch it
here are my current YouTube recommendations:
Tell me what you think of me.
your typical athiest-stay-at-home dad
Probably not a big surprise that I like to hang out in noncredibledefense.
This idea checks out for me, I might move the order around with how relevant they are to my interests but the top 5 videos are:
Tbh I think this might encapsulate my entire personality.
Jokes on her, I disabled YouTube Recommendations
I think it's a yellow flag
So did she hit or pass
Wtf, why would i have a Google account to watch videos?
Sci-fi, cats, board games, AI hardware. Yep.
Holy shit it's mine too 😭
I guess I'm a bit of a basic bitch. I have MKBHD, Scotty Kilmer, DarkViperAU, Jordan Howlett, StevenHe, and Scott the Woz as the first few recommendations. Also I watch YouTube on the TV/desktop and shorts on my phone.