• Troy@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    I just watched 45 mins of that video while folding laundry. The result was a dramatic change in the nature of my YouTube ads and recommended videos to promote preppers and pseudoscience. It’s amazing how the algorithm works so quickly to push people onto that radicalization treadmill.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      Firefox + Ublock Origin is a fairly quick fix to that problem.

      Of course, that won’t solve the general societal level problem of idiotic nonsense being more profitable than anything sound and well reasoned, but it might lower your personal stress levels a bit.

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      1 month ago

      Remember to delete it from your view history so you don’t get suggested actual nutbag videos.