• Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Absolutely. Sticking to the things they know and avoiding the recs is how a lot of people use Youtube. But all of the things you avoid are thrown in your face in the recs. Clickbait titles, bait and switch content, dogwhistling videos that start people down the path of ever more bigoted content (for example, the video the OP posted).

    I generally don’t engage much with video content though, so I’ll just continue to ignore it

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      all of the things you avoid are thrown in your face in the recs

      Hence why I tend to avoid the YT website. I have disabled recommendations on NewPipe and Grayjay, and that’s where 95% of my YT viewing comes from.