On YouTube I keep getting Russian propaganda videos recommended all the time, and I really don’t remember upvoting anything of that kind. So either YouTube does not use this algorithm (or maybe gives to “upvoted by people similar to you” much lower weight than “upvoted in general”), or there is some clever trick the authors of those videos use, but I am not sure what it could be.
On Facebook, I think people used this trick that they posted hundred cat videos, people upvoted them, and then they deleted the cat videos and posted some advertisement on their channel, and now the advertisement was shown to everyone, including “people you know liked this page”. But I think this should not be possible on YouTube, because you cannot change the videos once uploaded.
So… I don’t know. I wish YouTube created a bubble for me, but it seemingly does the opposite.
I think their metric might be click and not upvote (or at least, clicking has a heavy weight). Are you more likely to click on a video that pushes an argument you oppose?
As a quick test, you can launch a vpn and open private browsing to see how your recommendations change after a few videos
On YouTube I keep getting Russian propaganda videos recommended all the time, and I really don’t remember upvoting anything of that kind. So either YouTube does not use this algorithm (or maybe gives to “upvoted by people similar to you” much lower weight than “upvoted in general”), or there is some clever trick the authors of those videos use, but I am not sure what it could be.
On Facebook, I think people used this trick that they posted hundred cat videos, people upvoted them, and then they deleted the cat videos and posted some advertisement on their channel, and now the advertisement was shown to everyone, including “people you know liked this page”. But I think this should not be possible on YouTube, because you cannot change the videos once uploaded.
So… I don’t know. I wish YouTube created a bubble for me, but it seemingly does the opposite.
I think their metric might be click and not upvote (or at least, clicking has a heavy weight). Are you more likely to click on a video that pushes an argument you oppose?
As a quick test, you can launch a vpn and open private browsing to see how your recommendations change after a few videos