First of all my browser settings and addons:
- Vanilla Cookie Manager purges every cookie hourly (except whitelisted ones)
- most of the scripts are blocked by ScriptSafe (because Monero JavaScript miners and Spectre/Meltdown vulnerability)
- “Do not track me” is activated in the browser settings (personally I don’t think that matters but hey, why not)
Basically I don’t get recommended contents based on my “preferences” but this way I get the general sh*t and I usually get something like this…
Please note the number of subscribers:
- Electronic music: 840.000 (that’s fair because music is good)
- Family Guy: 26.000 (I prefer The Simpons but Family Guy is also good)
- Viktor Orbán: 630 (What? How does this one get here?)
I usually get results like this. So by default I get low-rated fishy political content on the index page of Youtube and my biggest concern is its one-sidedness (usually againts the recent government). I don’t know what algorithm they are using but they are doing it WRONG.
Maybe I should get my tin foil hat and start to beleive… or not. But this is again deeply concerning and I’m a bit curious that they are using the same method in other countries or not…
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