It isn’t a good test, because YouTube algorithms are shitty. For example, I disagree with Ben Shapiro probably 90% of the time and think he’s an odious troll, but because I watched him in a debate once, YT pushed videos of him for months after.
It’s actually a hidden test - she doesn’t care about the recommendations but wants to see if you’re using ReVanced.
Definite green flag for the video. Red flag for the girl, because who the fuck asks about that?
It’s not the worst idea to see if someone you’re interested in generally aligns with your interests and hobbies and isn’t one of those “hidden” right wing nut cases
YouTube’s algorithm is garbage though, so that information is worthless. Pretty sure it pushes right wing stuff on anyone remotely interested in politics regardless of affiliation. As for me, my watch history is off, so that isn’t possible in the first place.
I think they flagged me as a gun
nutenthusiast because my feed is literally nothing but gun videos. I am American but live in Europe; one of the reasons I moved here is because of the lack of guns!Oh God, for a while YouTube kept trying to give me right wing videos. You watch one tool review from someone you never heard of before, and all of a sudden, you start getting trad wife videos. Had to install a 3rd party channel blocker to deal with it.
I allways curate my watch history, if I have watched a random video outside of the main focus of my prefered categories/history, I will remove it before yt flips out
It was an actual possibility though. They genuinely did think about actually doing that for that mission and then for some reason didn’t. So there is alternate timeline out there where that’s entirely plausible. It’s not a random question.
Might want to see if their feed is full of Tate/Peterson videos
Probably not a big surprise that I like to hang out in noncredibledefense.
Actual no joke second video rec in my feed:
I genuinely don’t know how a potential date would react to this lol
Fuck that. I’ve already got a hard enough time dating while not using Instagram and Facebook. Shits gone too far. I fall asleep every night to Battlefield series of WW2 documentaries
Actually a red flag. Like at least 25% chance they’re a neonazi
I got an email from Youtube about 11 years ago that simply said: “the algorithm has abandoned you.”
And now whenever I go there all I get is a weird orange and green moire pattern.
Teach us how to escape the matrix like you did.
Get really into videos of open network accessible security cams set to experimental dark ambient. Then fullow their creators down into Umbral Youtube and it’s videos of tidepool cams, paracausal physics discussions and Saint Seiya AMVs set to Chilean Poetry literature class lecture notes.
Turn off history
I rarely watch youtube, but got this.
Light mode is going to scare her off, bro.
O no
what do you mean “again”
To fight ones enemies one must know ones enemies.
I would probably counter with “you wanna see my subscriptions instead? cuz I don’t fucks with no recommendations” and then she’d just walk away because she probably wasn’t even talking to me in the first place
My recommended videos are drain cleaning, lawn maintenance, wood turning, science, and meme stuff like Stephen He.
Other than the meme stuff, I imagine the girl would get the wrong idea about both my approach to chores and my scientific background.
Drain Cleaning Australia GOAT
RIPPER! You may not believe me when I say it folks, but there’s NOWHERE I’d rather be than right here, clearing this drain with you.
Joke’s on them; I disabled history a long time ago, so YouTube can’t recommend things to me now.
Hello, fellow “fuck you and your privacy settings” homepage enjoyer.
Seriously though, it makes me quite irrationally angry that they still have this shitty passive aggressive message on the homepage years after. Just give me my subscriptions feed instead ffs.
Lol yeah, “Recommendations not looking right to you? Turn on history for better ones!” Uh, no, I’d rather see more videos related to what I’m currently watching and not have my feed full of videos related to something I had a passing interest in in the past. If I want to go back on an old dive, I can use the search function.
Any mechanism you use to increase my engagement is attempting to monopolize my time for your profit (well, joke’s on you, my ad blocker still works and I’ll just stop using YouTube if you do manage to “force” me to watch ads).
NewPipe on the phone and smartube on the TV.
I get her point but that’s kinda cringy to say out loud
And I really don’t want to explain NewPipe or that I’m silently judging her for having youtube recommendations.
