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This is a normal post Doesn't the algorithm just go from what your viewing habits already are?

(beanolabub, Fri 13 Feb 2026, 17:31, Reply)
This is a normal post yes, and -
It adds whatever will sell advertising time.
 (I helped save b3ta! Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Fri 13 Feb 2026, 17:53, Reply)
This is a normal post Sadly no. I mean, sort of, but it's complicated.
But it seems that YT, like FB, like twitter, wants to push right wing content on everybody.

YT have been pushing a lot of sexist and racist crap on me recently. I literally receive pro-right/anti-left content when I specifically search for pro-left/anti-right content. Try it yourself.
 (I helped save b3ta! brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 13 Feb 2026, 18:14, Reply)
This is a normal post It’s trying to get you to engage and spend your time there.
If that means throwing some right-wing links into a rabidly left-winger’s feed in order to annoy them and goad them into commenting, then the algorithm has done its job.
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 13 Feb 2026, 18:54, Reply)
This is a normal post It wants engagement, yes, but
I have had YT set up so I can't see ads, I can't see (most) sponsored content, and I can't comment or even up/downvote others' comments... So the only ways I engage are up/downvoting videos, subscribing/unsubscribing to channels, reporting AI slop, and reporting hate crimes and the like. I only do pointless internet arguments on b3ta.

YT occasionally throws a fit and almost exclusively shows me content that it must know enrages me. When that happens I spend a few days on iplayer or whatever, then YT tries to win me back.

It's a toxic relationship, and it wants me to be a fashy incel for ...profit? I never hang around to watch the nasty videos it pushes. The logic and psychology of it all is a bit baffling. Tobacco and alcohol companies never wanted their customers to hate them... Drug dealers don't want their customers to hate them. Why do the pedlars of this new addictive thing behave so strangely?
 (I helped save b3ta! brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 13 Feb 2026, 20:33, Reply)
This is a normal post It doesn't matter whether you hate them or not.
As long as you stay engaged long enough to serve ads and get paid.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 13 Feb 2026, 21:17, Reply)
This is a normal post I see no ads.
It would make some sense for YT's business model to drive people like me away, but if they were to commit to that then my YT feed would always look like Rumble.

I guess our viewing habits and behavioural data still retain value without the ad revenue.
 (I helped save b3ta! brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 13 Feb 2026, 21:29, Reply)
This is a normal post All saleable data I guess.
Edit: Here's a thought, perhaps the algorithm is using keywords that are independent of the view taken by the video, a video slagging off Farage might still be categorised as being about him, suggesting another.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 13 Feb 2026, 21:45, Reply)
This is a normal post Doesn't explain why YT keeps shoving religious doggerel my way.

(I helped save b3ta! jonbob loves you, Fri 13 Feb 2026, 22:01, Reply)
This is a normal post If you're an atheist then this is the same kind of pattern.
If so I wonder if there's a frustrated Nazi out there who keeps getting Skepchic suggested to him, and a frustrated street preacher getting all your Hitchens videos....
 (I helped save b3ta! brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 13 Feb 2026, 22:29, Reply)
This is a normal post Ragebait is a thing, so yes.
I keep getting flag-shagger videos and financial market bullshit clickbait.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 14 Feb 2026, 21:24, Reply)