I almost never watch "shorts" but my suggestions for it seem to have an...uhhh...adult theme. I don't watch any such thing with YouTube. Does everyone see garbage like this?
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2024
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I actively avoid clicking any videos with horny looking thumbnails, even if I really like the creator. Even still, I get shit like this. What exactly the fuck does this have to do with KSP? Why does google think I wanna see this?
Yeah the YouTube algorithm is one of the worst recommendations engines I have seen tbh. It actively removes types of videos I repeatedly search for from my recommendations, and fills it with garbage I never watch.
But in the case of op it looks like a 100% horny content ratio which seems excessive, even for yt.
I've never had issues with the YouTube algorithm, my feed is full of games, tech, science stuff and long form videos explaining shit. That's about it, because that's about all I watch.
Am I just lucky that it's reliable for me?
Mine's similarly very good at recommending things that appeal to me. It does a good job at recommending a mix of videos from channels and topics I regularly watch and new things that appeal to me. It also recommends albums to me somewhat often that I end up really enjoying, too.
I definitely understand people not wanting to have content served up to them by algorithms, but I will say my personal YouTube experience is a happy and interesting little bubble, for the most part. I don't get any of the weird, hate-fuelled conspiracy videos, or the "AI reading out Reddit post" videos, or any of the other nonsense that I see other people have to deal with. Out of all of the social media algorithms I've experienced, it's been by far the best one for me.