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   Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 10:37:55 JST Owen

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   If you have any loved ones who use Youtube as a way to follow current affairs, it is your moral prerogative to go through their recommendations periodically and "do not recommend this video" things that are too heavily radicalized.

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     Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 10:37:56 JST Owen

     Something caused Youtube to lose track of my phone's viewing history recently - probably my point-blank refusal to log in when using the site - and the result has been interesting. Youtube now oscillates between a bare search page, or a page with some of the most feral radicalization content you can imagine, depending on what seems to be pure chance.

     It's doing a great job of breaking my watch-a-youtube-video-at-bedtime habit, I tell you what.

     Rich Felker repeated this.