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YouTube now suggests new content by colour (szmer.info)
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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

I fucking hate the algorithm.

I can watch 20 fucking hours of content about a subject, and it wont suggest anything similar.

but I accidentally click a link someone posts to a crazy right wing video, I get nothing but right wing violence and brainwashing fear mongering videos for over a week that I can barely break the fuck out of with hyper specific searches.

Which is the same problem facebook has, in that the algorithm favors right wing extremism and shoves people heavily down that path, and only through very significant and concerted effort can you break out of it.