Also, if you click the URLs, you're giving them ad revenue, as well as telling Youtube you would like to see more of the same. This is entirely under your control. Don't click content you don't want to see, and click "dislike" for content you don't want recommended.
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Replying to @Clouvas @EmCrimsonkitty and
How do I decide whether I want to boycott and/or support without looking at them?
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Replying to @jsalsman @EmCrimsonkitty and
Thumbnails, video titles and descriptions, uploader's reputation (or lack thereof), context of the tweet or post in which the URL was included. You said yourself you see tweets like "look, nazis are on youtube again [url]". Why would you click that if you don't want to see it?
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Replying to @Clouvas @EmCrimsonkitty and
I don't want to bury my head in the sand.
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Replying to @jsalsman @EmCrimsonkitty and
Then you can't fault the algorithm.
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Replying to @Clouvas @EmCrimsonkitty and
I have been faulting recommendation algorithms since 1989, and this is a few easy UX fixes at worst, and
@TeamYouTube does that kind of thing all the time, in consultation with@YTCreators supervised by@SusanWojcicki who knows I only complain when belief in flat earth increases.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @jsalsman @EmCrimsonkitty and
Okay but if you actually read the exchange we just had, you made a terrible case for yourself.
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Replying to @Clouvas @EmCrimsonkitty and
I don't know, Clouvas. At one point you seemed to imply that I should be more concerned about not contributing to the monetization of videos I don't like than with monitoring the extent of nazi recruiting on YouTube. Is that what you really believe? What if everyone did that?
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Replying to @jsalsman @EmCrimsonkitty and
If you wanted to curtail Nazi recruiting and propaganda, the simplest course of action for the average person would simply be to not give them money. If you think you can make a bigger difference with your monitoring efforts then be my guest.
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Replying to @Clouvas @EmCrimsonkitty and
I think I can make the biggest difference by helping
@SusanWojcicki and@TeamYouTube know when their recommendation engine is trying to recruit me to be a nazi because I want to monitor the extent to which nazis recruit on with their service1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
If you're really actively working with Youtube then sure. My point is most people don't do that, for a variety of reasons, so the next best thing they can do is pay attention to what they're clicking on.
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