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Honestly I wonder how much of it is just peoples own personalized recommendations and how much of it is general recommendations.

I have a hard rule not to use YouTube for any sort of news or politics, and the algorithm accommodates that very well. I’m sure if I created a new account, it would start off recommending me whatever BS is popular across YouTube at the time of creation, but if I used it exactly like I use my current account, I think the algorithm would accommodate that. I actually like YouTube, which seems to be an unpopular opinion in some places.

The only thing I can’t seem to get rid of, permanently, are the stupid banners of videos that YouTube adds in about COVID, or at the time of the election, that crap, and some other nonsense. I mean if I keep clicking the X to get that out of my face, isn’t that a strong signal I never want to see that crap or any of those topics again?