[troad]

I recently searched for a homey cooking recipe and YouTube pulled up a video titled something like 'Tearful father says goodbye to daughter before gang assassination', with a correspondingly horrifying thumbnail.

I responded by logging out, deleting the cookies for my YouTube container, and adding the YouTube domain to my adblock. My use of YouTube is now restricted to RSS feeds for channels I like, redirected to an Invidious or Piped instance. Highly recommended.

[15457345234]

I very strongly believe this sort of thing is why there's been such an anxiety epidemic.

It really does need attention urgently because it's turning people into nervous wrecks, and they don't seem able to stop themselves.

[nozzlegear]

> 'Tearful father says goodbye to daughter before gang assassination'

I’ve had this one suggested to me multiple times as well for completely unrelated content. It’s not the kind of thing that I watch or would click on even out of curiosity, but YouTube really thinks I should watch it for some reason.

[xetplan]

The comical thing to me is when I search, I can't even find the video in question.

[arrakeen]

same. i even reported the video but it appears to be perennial