<story><title>By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging human rights evidence</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/opinion/syria-youtube-content-moderation.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corodra</author><text>Heaven forbid I ever accidentally click on or get interested in some random talk show video, video roughly about video games or a big media news video. All of my normal engineering, business, programming, guns, history, and mechanics recommendations go right the fuck out the window. For the next week, half my recommendations are just filled with dogshit because of one accidental video. I stopped watching movie trailers because of this too. For some reason if I ever choose to watch a movie trailer, youtube thinks I want to watch makeup tutorials by teenagers. Drives me insane.&lt;p&gt;YouTube is better off with meta tag recommendations instead of their fancy little AI.</text></item><item><author>corndoge</author><text>In fact, exact title searches will usually not turn up videos with that  title unless you use quotes. YouTube will return clickbait and Jimmy Kimmel, entirely unrelated to the search, for exact title searches of videos with only a few tens of views.</text></item><item><author>codingslave</author><text>Not only Youtube, I&amp;#x27;ve noticed a huge disparity between Duck Duck Go results and Google results when writing queries that could be thought of as containing a controversial&amp;#x2F;politically&amp;#x2F;racially&amp;#x2F;etc charged topic. Youtube recommendations and search&amp;#x2F;ranking suppress searches as it is, even if they were to leave the content on there, most of it will never be surfaced through organic means without a direct link or a search with a direct title match.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CommieBobDole</author><text>I think that&amp;#x27;s a problem on every platform; on Apple News, if I read an article that&amp;#x27;s actual news that involves a celebrity somehow (&amp;quot;Tom Hanks murders 12, dies in hail of gunfire&amp;quot;) I get a deluge of celebrity gossip (&amp;quot;OMG you won&amp;#x27;t believe what Kylie Jenner&amp;#x27;s cousin&amp;#x27;s brother&amp;#x27;s hairstylist said&amp;quot;)articles for weeks.&lt;p&gt;I sort of feel like their recommendation AI is a bunch of if-then statements designed to funnel you into more heavily-monetized content if they think you display any interest at all.</text></comment>
<story><title>By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging human rights evidence</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/opinion/syria-youtube-content-moderation.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corodra</author><text>Heaven forbid I ever accidentally click on or get interested in some random talk show video, video roughly about video games or a big media news video. All of my normal engineering, business, programming, guns, history, and mechanics recommendations go right the fuck out the window. For the next week, half my recommendations are just filled with dogshit because of one accidental video. I stopped watching movie trailers because of this too. For some reason if I ever choose to watch a movie trailer, youtube thinks I want to watch makeup tutorials by teenagers. Drives me insane.&lt;p&gt;YouTube is better off with meta tag recommendations instead of their fancy little AI.</text></item><item><author>corndoge</author><text>In fact, exact title searches will usually not turn up videos with that  title unless you use quotes. YouTube will return clickbait and Jimmy Kimmel, entirely unrelated to the search, for exact title searches of videos with only a few tens of views.</text></item><item><author>codingslave</author><text>Not only Youtube, I&amp;#x27;ve noticed a huge disparity between Duck Duck Go results and Google results when writing queries that could be thought of as containing a controversial&amp;#x2F;politically&amp;#x2F;racially&amp;#x2F;etc charged topic. Youtube recommendations and search&amp;#x2F;ranking suppress searches as it is, even if they were to leave the content on there, most of it will never be surfaced through organic means without a direct link or a search with a direct title match.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>purple_ducks</author><text>Try delete it from your watch history: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;feed&amp;#x2F;history&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;feed&amp;#x2F;history&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your recommendations may return to normal.</text></comment>