• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 day ago

      I sign out to view shorts, clear site data, then manually search a couple of “seed” videos I like to get the algorithm picking out new stuff.

      It won’t even show you anything unless you have some viewing history. It’s just straight up broken for people who have had accounts for many years.

      • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Lol that’s close to what I do. It used to show you videos based on your likes and subs even with eatch history off but now they will refuse.

        So I just temporarily turned on history, watch some seeds, then turn it off again, and voila, it suggests based on likes and subs just like before.

    • Duranie@leminal.space
      9·
      1 day ago

      Interesting. All it shows me are cats, hair cut/dying, coffee, animals being silly, and comedic videos.

      • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        I get IDKsterling, shorts by miniminuteman, institute for justice, tasting history, stuff like that, then occasional cat/funny/meme videos that are largely benign

      • x4740N@lemm.ee
        3·
        1 day ago

        Log into YouTube on incognito mode

        The terrible shit will he there, I saw it for the first time in a while after testing sound on live fedora before installing it on dual boot

        • FourWaveforms@lemm.ee
          2·
          20 hours ago

          So YouTube can see if you’re wearing a fedora & if you are, it shows you a grip of “alpha male” videos?