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Why is youtube recommending conservative "talking points" to me?
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It's because you are a guy in your 30s. You (and me) are in a shitty demographic so the algorithm peddles us shit. It doesn't matter how many times I list shitheel vids by the ppl you me mentioned as "do not recommend channel", I will always have Rogan or Peterson popping up in my feed to ruin my day. It drives me crazy
It can't just be that though, I'm a guy in my 30s and I never get any of these channels recommended to me, just videos by channels I've subscribed to or similar to what I've been watching, even after watching political videos I don't get those shysters recommended to me.
There's a difference between the recommendations for normal videos and shorts, I'd bet OP is looking at shorts.
In the normal feed YouTube knows about my hobbies, interests and serves decent recommendations that usually interest me.
The rare times I look at shorts it starts with comedians, goes to ass&tits, and then out come the crazy right-wingers.