PSA: Don't search cute animals on youtube. Your recommendations on the sidebar will have thumbnails of animals in distress for clicks.
PSA: Don't search cute animals on youtube. Your recommendations on the sidebar will have thumbnails of animals in distress for clicks.
I fucked up my algo watching animal grooming and cute cat videos. Funny enough something I like to watch because it's soothing has turned into something that ruins my day.
Kind of fucked that people are using animal abuse for clicks.
In order to use YouTube I need:
DF YouTube (Distraction Free) - no sidebar, no recommendations at the end of the video
Clickbait Remover for Youtube - thumbnails are a couple seconds into the video, titles are in all lower case
Hide shorts for Youtube™
ClearURLs - gets rid of tracking from URLs
Decentraleyes - I'm not positive but I'm pretty sure I need it
uBlockOrigin - ad blocker that you can also use to delete elements that it misses otherwise
SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships
Shit is fucking crazy, comrade
Unhook replaces the function of DF and Hide Shorts, in addition to a few more nice options for hiding algo-slop. would highly recommend it! also Dearrow, which was made by the developer of SponsorBlock. it does the same thing as Clickbait Remover, but with added customization and community submitted replacements.
Just installed them. Didn't realize how much I was advertised to in the home page
Omg ty for compiling this list, I need it so bad
Whenever i search for some somewhat obscure videos, like for an uncommon bass guitar or a highly regional dish, i get recommended horrible videos because the algo gets bored or gives up? I dunno. I was just looking a sound sample for an Ibanez bass guitar from 1974, i didn't need to see the thumbnail for a youtube short of some guy cutting his face off. No thank you.
When I look up obscure stuff it just spits out right-wing outrage channels complaining a out wokeness and the like.
It always shows up as a random playlist, too. No idea what would prompt it.
Whenever i search for some somewhat obscure videos, like for an uncommon bass guitar or a highly regional dish, i get recommended horrible videos because the algo gets bored or gives up?
I think that the algo works by spotting correlation patterns in a "people who watched x also watched y" kind of way, so if you're looking at something really obscure, small aberrations and maybe even individual histories can distort the resulting recommendations because it just has fewer accounts to pull from. Just speculation.
Yeah I wish I knew why it does that. I know if you just put in gibberish sometimes it comes back with like beheading thumbnails.
It's even more annoying because it's like, i got tired of people shoving these videos in my face 15 years ago, i don't need my own computer to be doing it too.
I have done okay fixing my algo by reporting anything and everything that is even remotely offensive to me. Google seems to get the hint pretty quick that not only do I not want to engage in that content, I'm going to bog down their reporting algo with reports about it.
Same, really wish there was a macro app for it so I didn't always have to individually select the category of what is offensive on the video
There finding people who put animals in bad situations only to rescue them on video for clicks
I was gunna comment this too, it’s becoming a real serious problem. These disgusting people saw how lucrative these animal rescue videos have become and have started intentionally putting these animals (usually young puppies and kittens) in danger and hurting them only to act like they’re “saving” them. It’s so horrific.
Its crazy. Those vids have millions of views. Then others see this as a lane and do it too
I mean, people have done this with their own kids. Not that it makes either situation better, just unsurprising.
Exploit the kids for clicks I know of. Putting them in danger in similar Idk but wouldn't be surprised
Gonna have to watch out for this, watch funny animal videos with my kid on my phone sometimes before bedtime.
It's kind of insidious because the video thumbnails don't break any rules and the videos themselves are usually about rescues, but they use stills from the video of the animal not well for clicks.
I'm sick and tired of having to consciously curate my feed to avoid being provided horrors beyond humanity flooding to my recommends list by the fucking torment nexus
Some fuckwad with a transphobic avatar and alt-right shit for their comments was re-posting Agu videos to gather clicks so they could lead people down the pipeline. Reported and blocked the channel, but I doubt anything will come of it.
There's this former cop and veteran who was making Great Replacement videos and doing TV/movie reactions. He's still up and running a year after his blatant copyright violations. Absolutely worthless moderation that can't even do oppressive capitalism right.
I HATE THE ALGORITHM
I HATE THE ALGORITHM
Permanently Deleted
Reject YouTube algorithm*: https://unhook.app/
* Not open source
I use YouTube enhancement suite and have cinema mode always on. I can't see recommended videos, I can't see comments and I can't see the thumbnail. When I can I just use VLC though.
Instagram Reels is terrible. If you see something messed up, don't interact with it at all or it'll just be that and there is no amount of 'not interested' feedback will get you out of it. There's no way to reset it either. They don't seem to curate their content very well so there tons of vile human garbage.
