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this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2024
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I've recently gotten into collecting pocket knives. Most knife makers are pretty staunchly right-wing, so my Amazon and YouTube recommendations are also loaded with drivel like this. It's frustrating that even innocuous items like these are politicized everywhere.
I got into ham radio. I have to be careful to not click on videos by preppers lol.
Just FYI, you can easily delete videos from your YouTube watch history, and then you will no longer get recommendations based on the videos you deleted.
Open in private windows. If you want to learn about wood gasifiers, about half of those videos are made by right-wingers.
I'm a gun nut and I almost never get right-wing crap on YouTube. I've said this several times, and usually get downvoted, but I honestly don't understand it. Maybe I've been on YouTube so long they get me?
OTOH, I started looking at survival videos and could have fallen down a rabbit-hole of crazy.
YouTube isn't as bad as Amazon is, in my experience. On YouTube, I'll get recommendations mostly from self-defense "gurus" with their thin blue line flags in the background. But Amazon is a lot more aggressive, and will give me recommendations a lot more like OP's, with links to conservative TV shows, books written by FOX hosts, shitty screen print 'murrican tee shirts, etc.