Think about it, Google Maps is (I think) the biggest collection of map data and information on locations everywhere around the world, yet I don’t want an advertising company knowing that I just went to a fast food place.
YouTube is an endless trove of video content that anyone can contribute to, yet I’d much rather not give an advertiser information on every little interest that I have in video.
It’s so bad for you, but it’s so good.
My youtube front page just shows random foxnews, joe rogan, andrew tate, prager u, copaganda, hunter biden’s laptop, china, tiktokers, all bunch of things I have no interest in. There are no republicans or nationalists in my household. Don’t know why these shit keep showing up.
My roomie keeps getting videos and adverts about visiting Dubai/UAE/Qatar etc.
We’re both LGBTQ+ so that wouldn’t end well.
Oh no 😳
My guess is that it’s because the area we live in has a decently sized immigrant population, usually Middle East/North African.
Those countries are probably a lot more appealing to them than they are to us, but the algorithm lumps us all in in the same demographic.
Sometimes these kind of channels show up in my recommended videos. When they show up I click on “do not recommend this channel”.
It just shows up because it’s popular and they don’t reasonably know what you like.
Yikes… I hope you find your way out of that hole, maybe starting over may help? I know seperate channels on the same account have different recommended pages, so that might work.
I am not even logged in. I clear my entire browser every day and youtube still tries to shove propaganda. I use Firefox + uBlock Origin on Android. Seems like if you dont use an account, they just show what the average person watches, which is apparantly right wing shit.