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?

  • arin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Way to out yourself. Their algo depends on what you spend time watching. Lol

  • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Lol that algorithm has you in that demo for a reason I’m sure. Not sure I would’ve asked this publicly.

    Also, who’s is a contraction of “who is” or “who has”. You want the possessive “whose”

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    3 months ago

    Bro you should have investigated the actual answer to this question before asking it publicly 😃

    It’s not to say you’re watching lots of soft core porn but the algorithm has definitely decided that you’ll like it

    • Bell@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      There’s alot I could argue with but maybe the best answer I have is: why just the shorts? The rest of my YouTube feed kinda sucks but it isn’t porn or titillating at all.

      • XNX@slrpnk.net
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        3 months ago

        Theyre separate algorithms so its prolly the only type of shorts youve clicked or hovered over for a some time

        • Bell@lemmy.worldOP
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          3 months ago

          That’s the thing, I think I’ve watched maybe 2 shorts ever, pretty sure they were not like these or at least only mildly sexy

          • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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            3 months ago

            But it’s Google, so they know your browsing history and have you in a “bucket” for what their metrics think will drive engagement from you. (Or they don’t know enough about you and just think boobs will get you intersted, because sex sells.)

            Meh. We’re all human. If Google thinks you like thirst traps, whatevs. Pretty ladies are pretty ladies.
            But if you don’t want to see it, you can probably use feedback tools to change what they show you.

  • Huschke@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    Before anyone rails on OP too much let me tell you this. My shorts feed was full of tech stuff. Then one day I clicked on a hot girl and watched a few of the shorts. Big mistake. Now even though I’m not clicking on them again my feed looks like OPs.

    I guess the lesson here is. Never click on these shorts ever if you don’t want to get spammed by them.

    • Jesusaurus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I’d like to do that but that’s also how YouTube indicates which videos you’ve already watched, which YouTube will frequently re-serve in your recommendations.

      • pjwestin@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Oh, don’t worry, reccomendations will be dead too! Fun fact, I turned off my Watch History 5+ years ago, but 6 months ago YouTube decided they, “needed,” my history to give me recommendations. I decided that was fine, so now the Homepage tab is disabled, the Shorts tab is disabled, and now I just have a subscription list from creators I like! I still get related videos when watching a video, and that’s more than adequate to discover new content. I don’t have time to watch all my subscriptions anyway, so if YouTube can’t reccomend 30 videos I’ve never seen before under every video I watch, what do I care?

        • _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz
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          3 months ago

          I do something similar, but I guess scorched earth edition:

          • Only use firefox, no chrome or chromium variants

          • Never signed in to my google account (only have it to keep a gmail forward going for old ass subscriptions)

          • Have firefox configured to only keep whitelisted sites’ cookies and data between restarts - google is not on that list

          • uBlock Origin

          The last several months I started seeing that youtube screen “enable history to see recommendations” blank page when first landing, as if it was a punishment to me. It’s not. I remember all the channels I like, and it’s easy enough to keep checking back. So that blank screen is actually a nice bonus to me.

          • pjwestin@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            It’s amazing how Google thinks giving you the content you actually want to see is some kind of punishment, especially when 90% of the other content is sweaty needs whining about how woke Hollywood is.

  • Yerbouti@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    There are Firefox extensions to: disable shorts, make your homepage your subscription page.