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I almost never watch "shorts" but my suggestions for it seem to have an...uhhh...adult theme. I don't watch any such thing with YouTube. Does everyone see garbage like this?
Bro you should have investigated the actual answer to this question before asking it publicly π
It's not to say you're watching lots of soft core porn but the algorithm has definitely decided that you'll like it
There's alot I could argue with but maybe the best answer I have is: why just the shorts? The rest of my YouTube feed kinda sucks but it isn't porn or titillating at all.
Theyre separate algorithms so its prolly the only type of shorts youve clicked or hovered over for a some time
Well thatβs just not how recommendation algorithms work. A part of it will be content based, directly related to what the user can be associated with.
However, the largest part is collaboration based filtering of content. That means, our user is put in a group based on his other preferences, letβs assume nerdy tech stuff, and then is shown content that he has not liked yet but his group of peers has, meaning he could probably like it too.
In other words - heβs not the one in fault here, YOU are (you pretty much have to be nerdy tech folks to be here).
Please, could everyone here stop clicking on this stuff so that OP donβt have to be associated with your filthy behavior, thank you.
I got a lesbian lumberjack. She's jacked. I'm not even mad.
Edit: For the curious https://youtube.com/shorts/U87Y4HnGQWY
Look how energetic she is
Ah, to be young and a lesbian.
holy shit lmao the first wood just gave up
She knows her way around a maul.
Before anyone rails on OP too much let me tell you this. My shorts feed was full of tech stuff. Then one day I clicked on a hot girl and watched a few of the shorts. Big mistake. Now even though I'm not clicking on them again my feed looks like OPs.
I guess the lesson here is. Never click on these shorts ever if you don't want to get spammed by them.
agree, I do have some other things in my feed, but I'd definitely say the algorithm has certain preferences.
Probably has to do with most of my interests being pretty nice compared to 'ooh pretty girl'. So when it compares what I click on it's easier to find high frequency recommendations based on other peoples likes. I know fuck all about the algo that makes feeds, but my guess is that's how it works.
Mine started out like this but eventually was replaced with gaming content and cars. Does anyone know how to get the porn back?
Mine isn't like that but there can be a few reasons I'd guess at:
I actively avoid clicking any videos with horny looking thumbnails, even if I really like the creator. Even still, I get shit like this. What exactly the fuck does this have to do with KSP? Why does google think I wanna see this?
Yeah the YouTube algorithm is one of the worst recommendations engines I have seen tbh. It actively removes types of videos I repeatedly search for from my recommendations, and fills it with garbage I never watch.
But in the case of op it looks like a 100% horny content ratio which seems excessive, even for yt.
I disabled shorts because it's brain-melting garbage, just like TikTok, which its based on.
How do you disable them?
u can hide shorts with uBLOCK. https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
This is what I wanted to comment. I added this list and it works like a charm.
I was getting side tracked by these YouTube shorts all the time and it started becoming an issue. They are too addictive and mostly just void.
I don't know why there's so much soft porn on every platform, skirting the rules and hiding just enough to be allowed.
The real porn is still there. You can just go look at it.
Yes u horny and they know, mine is all nerd shit like the other guy said
Lol that algorithm has you in that demo for a reason I'm sure. Not sure I would've asked this publicly.
Also, who's is a contraction of "who is" or "who has". You want the possessive "whose"
Ty for the grammar lesson, I corrected it
FYI: when you disable YouTube history it'll disable recommendations too
Way to out yourself. Their algo depends on what you spend time watching. Lol
Eh. Pretty much all of my viewing is related to physics I don't understand, astronomy I don't understand, and weird history stuff. I still get the soft porn algorithm on shorts.
Closest I come to viewing is when I'm scrolling and my phone interprets that as a click. Then I get pissed off because that fraction of a second for the algorithm is like letting a single pregnant cockroach into your kitchen.
This is just untrue. Shorts defaults to the same for me as a gay man who has never clicked on a single one of them.
Mine shows 90% videos from channels I've either subscribed to or at least watched before, and 10% random pop culture stuff.
Then again, I don't actually use YouTube very much, and if I come across a video on Lemmy or wherever I never open it with a logged-in browser. Maybe I've inadvertently gamed the system.
Youtube Shorts hasn't done this for me (I actually follow some creators that make shorts so it's usually them) but Facebook's version is infuriatingly just like this and also I can't get rid of them. Every time I see one I go to the dots and select "don't see any more of these" but they just keep showing up and it's always some girl doing a yoga pose in a bikini, camera decidedly pointed directly at her vagina.
Works fairly well for me when I'm on the shorts doomscrolling. Your mileage could vary of course.
It only seems to show me the same 15-20 shorts since they first started featuring shorts on the main page. They're relevant to what I watch, but they're all hella old and I've seen the ones that interest me already. IDK why it never updates.
My shorts feed mostly consists of videos about the signs of depression and mechanical keyboards.
Google has more info on you that any other company on the planet... they know what you are into. You private tabs were never really private.
Depends on whatever psychological profile google has created for you I guess. Currently mine is mostly about exotic guns, because I found that fascinating for a while. I don't own any guns and I am not a supporter of lax gun laws. But google does google things.
On my subscription page, it shows shorts from my subscribed channels. On my main page, it's girls in bikinis playing on a guitar, violin or drums. I wantch a lot of independent musicians doing instrumental covers, but I don't recall seeing any of them wearing skimpy clothing.
I guess it's sort of like facebook, to increase engagement. I stopped visiting there about a year ago, but I didn't close my account. I now get one friend recommendation daily, and it's always sexy looking girls I've never heard of. These sites register me as male, so they always combine my interests with sexy females, to entice me to spend more time there.
My FB has loads of this and I am convinced it's because someone in my friends list is going wild on Asian cam girls
Mine is hydraulic press and video game shit. Idk dude.
I have my YouTube history off and before they disabled shorts feed for people with no history this is how it looked like, creepy af
Mine is entirely alt right "comedians" and helldivers 2. I'm pretty sure the algorithm thinks I wholeheartedly endorse the SuperEarth ideology.
Instagram is way more aggressive. I can't search for anyone on there without being blasted with highly questionable content and softcore
My YouTube is well-trained, but this is how my Instagram is. Didnβt use it or follow anybody on it for years. Recently took to scrolling and watching funny dog videos on there. I was showing my GF a funny pupper and accidentally tapped the search loupe at the bottom. BOOM. Bouncing boobies and butts covered my screen. I just kind-of stared at it in disbelief, saying βWhat the hell?β She got a laugh out of it. I guess this is a big part of instagram now.
Yeah buddy that's definitely on you mine is all science and homestead content.
The algorithm makes sense to me, in that on my main PC I pretty much exclusively watch nerd shit on youtube. Tech stuff, 3D printing, machinery, motorcycles, that sort of thing. Youtube therefore probably assumes I am male, so in my Shorts feed seems to be comprised of about 90% boobies, and 10% clips about guns.
But then the algorithm doesn't make sense to me, because on my living room PC we pretty much exclusively watch cat videos, bird videos, and videos-for-cats (the ones with all birds and squirrels and stuff), How Ridiculous, and Gavin Free. The Shorts feed there is also roughly 90% boobies, but in fairness the remaining 10% appears to be cats.
(Neither instance is logged in to a Google account or anything.)
My shorts is mostly what I watch on long form and vice versa
