sortius
After having been on YouTube for well over a decade, I've noticed some of the dark patterns.
One is the 5th video tile on your "Home" (not including ad tiles, I block ads).
It's the toxic tile. The one with the low view (<1000), low quality, possibly racist, videos.
Never click the 5th video tile.
I just saw The Project turn up in that tile 😆
Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD
@sortius @moz I have seen bogus channels on the home page, but I didn’t realize that it was always the 5th tile. Sometimes I see things that are obviously crazy and press “don’t recommend this channel”
Moz
@sortius I pay for premium and basically never see political recommendations. ABC News is about as close as it gets.
But I suspect my "never recommend this channel" list is thousands long, I aggressively curate out things I don't like (mostly because I watch one channel of a bunch of minor interests. One model train channel, one UK farm politics channel, one bicycle tat review channel etc. So I block 200 "similar to one you like" for each topic)
sortius
@moz the 5th tile definitely recommends in-line with your tastes, but it's always toxic. Not sure if it does that on Premium, but definitely free there's a 5th tile. I see it on my kids' computers, and I need to explain what it is to them at some stage
sortius
@EricFielding @moz oh, I'm very active with the "don't recommend" stuff, but it still comes through if they really want to push it on you.
I spend a lot of time on YT, as do the kids, so we've got pretty full profiles.
Funnily enough, if the kids watch YT on the TV, it's my account, so I can see how their viewing affects mine. 5th tile will go from Minecraft to Rogan. 😬
It's why I have a blanket ban on "Shorts", it's like 5th tile all the time
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