I have an incredibly specific question that may accidentally reveal something I don't want to reveal:
Has anybody else been, out of nowhere, receiving constant recommendations for Near Death Experience videos in their YouTube algorithm? Or does the algorithm know some shit about me that I don't?
Has anybody else been, out of nowhere, receiving constant recommendations for Near Death Experience videos in their YouTube algorithm? Or does the algorithm know some shit about me that I don't?
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Holy moly what a typo from using text-to-speech. Just throw the whole phone away .
That's why he has a finance account, he lives for money and does anything to get it
On the other hand, maybe that's just a different form of a near death experience video?
Mark them as "Not interested" and remove them from your history.
Near death experiences are a big part of certain fringe/cult groups attached to that religion.
I report nonsense "science", and click on the Not Interested or Do Not Recommend Channel.
Subscribing to some channel destroys the feed, so Unsubscribe too. Which means their algo is crap.
That said, the shorts algo does seem prone to fixating, even if you literally never watch a genre. I constantly get this one glass blowing channel I’ve never ever watched.
And god forbid you tap a short by accident (fat finger, pocket, etc)
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/08/youtube-update-homepage-watch-history/
Opting out, you do get recommendations; the signal just becomes geography. If you live in a cIty, it defaults to what's popular in the neighorhood.
When I opted out, my Mexican neighbors were getting me nonstop banda music.
With autoplay and watch history off, and a curated selection of subscribed channels, YouTube works.
Otherwise, it just keeps trying to tell me to watch “Joe Rogan Clips”.
If you watch Fundie Fridays, the algo thinks you're an ex-fundy but doesn't know *what kind* of ex-fundy you are: atheist? New Ager? Mainline Christian?
It's an A/B test of preferences.
This seems bad for you, Ben. 😬
Fear they might do shit to you
My feed is the same garbage slop it always is
However in the past I have triggered the NDE YouTube algorithm by watching spiritual videos about Buddhism
So just a clue if you clicked on anything re Buddhism like spirituality you will trigger NDE YouTube
Maybe it's a sign you're in a coma and none of this real😂
But I get nonstop AI slop. Like if I watch something with cartoons, now I have 100 recommendations of “what this cartoon looks like in real life” made with AI.
Then after doing that 3-4 times, it will stop
Everything is tradeoffs. On Bluesky we don’t have algorithmic content like that, and one of the biggest complaints people have is they want it.
Reality is weird. I prefer without it, but I am a minority there.
Not complaining, eating a gummy and watching a 55 minute explanation of the Goldbach Conjecture is actually pretty fun.
Let me watch cat videos in peace you predatory bastards!
I.e gun videos, fighting videos, near death videos are all things I’ve had to reject.
It’s in my feed all the time
I’ve never googled- or even thought about
But it’s there all the time
Thus it’s now part of your algorithm. It’s very easy for any number of things to invade it.
…I doubt it’s anything else
Very much at all
if so
ahhhh!
NOW I know something about you!
i have been sick all week and watched them while zoning out, and now my entire homepage is in hell.
I don't know what capricious god has touched you and I don't know if it'll come for any of us next