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by arsenico 609 days ago
However, none of that was fed to you by algorithms, but rather your own curiosity for weird stuff and your ability to find it. I am not saying that it is good or bad, but in my book, it is different from infinite algorithmic feeds we currently have.
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> your own curiosity for weird stuff and your ability to find it

Ignoring the fact that my comment was about watching videos with age rating: Not really? The execution for example came under the name of some anime episode I wanted to watch back then.

Lots of trolls liked to upload terrible stuff under innocuous names.

But sure, once I was on liveleak things were moderately down to my own choices, whatever that means for a minor. It's also just as true today btw. The reason kids get these videos is because they're clicking on the thumbnails that interests them.

Yeah, but OP was talking about vetting and policing content. I fully agree that addictive algorithms are bad though.
Good point