I don't really log into to Youtube and my browser (Librewolf) is pretty hostile to it's tracking. So I end up having fresh recommendations quite a bit. You can tell, because it's all mainstream shit when it resets, then it will morph into things closer to what I watch.
It's extremely rare that I watch political content on Youtube, I just don't care for rants of guys with Jesus hair agitating me. So I assume that's why I am pretty much never curated into a group being offered propaganda.
It's brutal when you look at it from a clean slate and it very much gives me validation that Youtube decides who they want to be popular. I'll go watch a random tech video and immediately it's steering me to only top channels. It is an algorithm, because it improves over time, although I do still get the weird one-offs. I think you might be on to something, it ties a lot more to things about history, because I noticed more politics at a time I'd been watching some Cold War things. I guess they have to make sure to inform me the truth about "real Communism."
I don't really log into to Youtube and my browser (Librewolf) is pretty hostile to it's tracking. So I end up having fresh recommendations quite a bit. You can tell, because it's all mainstream shit when it resets, then it will morph into things closer to what I watch.
It's extremely rare that I watch political content on Youtube, I just don't care for rants of guys with Jesus hair agitating me. So I assume that's why I am pretty much never curated into a group being offered propaganda.
It's brutal when you look at it from a clean slate and it very much gives me validation that Youtube decides who they want to be popular. I'll go watch a random tech video and immediately it's steering me to only top channels. It is an algorithm, because it improves over time, although I do still get the weird one-offs. I think you might be on to something, it ties a lot more to things about history, because I noticed more politics at a time I'd been watching some Cold War things. I guess they have to make sure to inform me the truth about "real Communism."