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She's almost 70, spend all day watching q-anon style of videos (but in Spanish) and every day she's anguished about something new, last week was asking us to start digging a nuclear shelter because Russia was dropped a nuclear bomb over Ukraine. Before that she was begging us to install reinforced doors because the indigenous population were about to invade the cities and kill everyone with poisonous arrows. I have access to her YouTube account and I'm trying to unsubscribe and report the videos, but the reccomended videos keep feeding her more crazy shit.

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[-] fennec@feddit.de 208 points 1 year ago

At this point I would set up a new account for her - I’ve found Youtube’s algorithm to be very… persistent.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 73 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, it's linked to the account she uses for her job.

[-] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 129 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can make "brand accounts" on YouTube that are a completely different profile from the default account. She probably won't notice if you make one and switch her to it.

You'll probably want to spend some time using it for yourself secretly to curate the kind of non-radical content she'll want to see, and also set an identical profile picture on it so she doesn't notice. I would spend at least a week "breaking it in."

But once you've done that, you can probably switch to the brand account without logging her out of her Google account.

[-] AvoidMyRage@lemmy.world 105 points 1 year ago

I love how we now have to monitor the content the generation that told us "Don't believe everything you see on the internet." watches like we would for children.

[-] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We can thank all that tetraethyllead gas that was pumping lead into the air from the 20s to the 70s. Everyone got a nice healthy dose of lead while they were young. Made 'em stupid.

OP's mom breathed nearly 20 years worth of polluted lead air straight from birth, and OP's grandmother had been breathing it for 33 years up until OP's mom was born. Probably not great for early development.

[-] cheeseblintzes@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Shoutout to lead paint and asbestos maybe?

[-] fluke@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Asbestos is respiratory, nothing to do with brain development or damage.

[-] cheeseblintzes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hence the maybe. :)

Thanks!

[-] favrion@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

HOW DO I PRINT THE FACE BOOK ?

[-] _finger_@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

She’s going to seek this stuff out and the algorithm will keep feeding her. This isn’t just a YouTube problem, this is also a mom problem.

[-] Historical_General@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Delete watch history, find and watch nice channels and her other interests, log in to the account on a spare browser on your own phone periodically to make sure there's no repeat of what happened.

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