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Weird. Youtube keeps recommending right wing videos even though I've purged them from my watch history and always selected Not Interested. It got to the point that I installed a 3rd party channel blocker.
I don't even watch too many left leaning political videos and even those are just tangentially political.
I've been watching tutorials on jump ropes and kickboxing. I do watch YouTube shorts, but lately I'm being shown Andrew Tate stuff. I didn't skip it quick enough, now 10% of the things I see are right leaning bot created contents. Slowly gun related, self defense, and Minecraft are taking over my YouTube shorts.
Kickboxing to Andrew Tate is unfortunately a short jump for the algorithm to make, I guess
If you don't already, you can view your watch history and delete things.
I do that with anything not music related, and it keeps my recommendations extremely clean.
I like a few Minecraft channels, but I only watch it in private tabs because I know yt will flood my account with it if I'm not careful. There is no middle ground with The Algorithm.
Yeah it's too much skewed by recent viewing. Even if you're subscribed to X amount of channels about topic Y but you just watched one video on topic Z, then say goodbye to Y, you only like Z now.