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[Rumor] Youtube is A/B testing disabling "Do not recommend this channel" on me (feddit.de)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi lemmy,

youtube served me this survey today (english translation): "Which of the following issues have you encountered on the YouTube homepage today?

*The page is confusing
*I want to remove a video, but I don't know how to do it
*I couldn't find a particular livestream
*The "Do not recommend videos from this channel" menu option does not work
*Other problem
*None of them / not sure"

Which is funny, because I noticed when I blocked a "right wing propaganda" channel the other day in the YT shorts section it just skipped the video and played another one from the same channel.

Disclaimer: All anecdotal evidence, I can't prove a thing, but even just the idea of me not being able to stop shitty recommendations pains me.

WTF Youtube. Stop that shit.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

So you have zero evidence that this is actually happening?

If it gives you video from the same channel instantly after blocking, that means nothing, these changes take a while to propagate, YouTube is a distributed system. Give it a few minutes to rebuild the feed and then try.

How are people upvoting this crap?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Given how much YouTube tries to push right wing propaganda down everyone's feed, I'm not inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Why doesn't it put right wing propaganda on my feed? Am I somehow special?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So you're more inclined to believe any online misinformation that happens to agree with your priors?

I.e. the exact same problem you're indirectly complaining about?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I’ve never seen right wing anything in my home feed on YouTube. Not sure what you’re on about.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Yeah YouTube uses a database with eventual consistency. It isn't immediately going to reflect changes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I don't have evidence. That's why I added the rumor in the title and mentioned it on the end of the post. It just never happend before in the youtube app like this. Could be pure coincidence. The only thing that concerns me is the language they use. It's very suggestive they've done this in person. At least it sounds this way in German.