I almost never watch “shorts” but my suggestions for it seem to have an…uhhh…adult theme. I don’t watch any such thing with YouTube. Does everyone see garbage like this?
Mine is video games, guitar playthroughs, and fragments of bands I listen to performing live
Mine is standup comedy, quick videos on how to use modern weapons, quick videos on how to use medieval weapons, FPS gamers doing crazy moves, and those guys who make love action shorts about video games.
My advice is stop giving thumbs up to the softcore porn.
Great. You made me actually search for the titles. I guess it’s infectious.
I haven’t actively used Facebook since I was in high school, and recently scrolling through my feed it’s not even softcore it’s straight up p*rn!
I keep hiding these posts & they don’t stop appearing… I wish I could tell Facebook I’m not a perpetually online horny teenager anymore. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Mine started out like this but eventually was replaced with gaming content and cars. Does anyone know how to get the porn back?
Watch more porn.
Doesn’t work. You ever tried to buy sex toys on amazon? They will not let you run a proper search.
I don’t know what’s wrong with your Amazon, but it works just fine here.
When? Haven’t tried recently.
Tried just now, plenty of toys for every taste.
Huh. I can find them but never with precise searches.
Well, something is wrong on your side.
Depends on whatever psychological profile google has created for you I guess. Currently mine is mostly about exotic guns, because I found that fascinating for a while. I don’t own any guns and I am not a supporter of lax gun laws. But google does google things.
You bastard LAX is a major international airport. We can’t afford to have lax security there.
I am not a native english speaker. But according to the dictionary lax meand loose or casual. Is it uncommon?
You are correct, but LAX is also the Los Angeles airport code. He’s just fuckin with you
Most of them are promoting their OF
Mine is but it also works for getting clicks on me because monkey brain
FYI: when you disable YouTube history it’ll disable recommendations too
Sort of. It pretends to disable recommendations, but things like shorts that show up in feeds a related videos are still skewed toward you. They just disable the ability to really scroll through them to try to encourage you to turn it back on. You can trust their profile on you is still kept up-to-date ;)
My issue with that is that then you see default youtube, which is also terrible.
It looks like this:
oh, I’ve never used this official mobile app for youtube. I was talking about the desktop version.
edit: They must have changed something. Previously, no login desktop youtube just had the most bottom of the barrel clickbait shit that appealed the ipad kids.
Stop threatening me with a good time.
Wow
I disabled shorts everywhere. Before I saw your post, I couldn’t even recall YouTube having shorts.
Also, Google tracks your everything, not just your YouTube history. You likely use Google Search a lot for adult content. Even a VPN and browsing on incognito mode might not save you. They have lots of ways track you.
Then why am I not seeing uh … never mind
My shorts is mostly what I watch on long form and vice versa
Mine shows 90% videos from channels I’ve either subscribed to or at least watched before, and 10% random pop culture stuff.
Then again, I don’t actually use YouTube very much, and if I come across a video on Lemmy or wherever I never open it with a logged-in browser. Maybe I’ve inadvertently gamed the system.
Mine isn’t like that but there can be a few reasons I’d guess at:
- YouTube recommends you things other people in your household watch (which can extend to random people if your isp uses cnat and doesn’t give you an individual ip).
- This one is more of a guess, but I’d assume a lot of people would click on that content, so if you never watch shorts maybe their algorithm just gives you the default recommendations.
- If you watch adult content without protecting your privacy it’s most likely associated with your account in their recommendations.
I actively avoid clicking any videos with horny looking thumbnails, even if I really like the creator. Even still, I get shit like this. What exactly the fuck does this have to do with KSP? Why does google think I wanna see this?
Yeah the YouTube algorithm is one of the worst recommendations engines I have seen tbh. It actively removes types of videos I repeatedly search for from my recommendations, and fills it with garbage I never watch.
But in the case of op it looks like a 100% horny content ratio which seems excessive, even for yt.
I’ve never had issues with the YouTube algorithm, my feed is full of games, tech, science stuff and long form videos explaining shit. That’s about it, because that’s about all I watch.
Am I just lucky that it’s reliable for me?
For me, there are 2 specific things that annoy me to no end with it. 1 is my guilty pleasure, I love watching hour long videos from Asian channels where they just film restaurants or bakeries making food in large batches. Honestly, youtube seems to actively remove them from my feed. I have to search for them every 2 weeks despite watching this content at least weekly. The second is the opposite. At Christmas I searched for a video of a fireplace with music to put on as ambient background for dinner. My feed is chock full of 8+ hour music playlists now despite never having looked at another one. It’s been 4 months.
I don’t know what it is but i swear they have content they like showing you and content they dont like. If you want the former your experience will be OK. If you want the latter then they just decide you’re wrong and still get the former.
The Horny algorithm kicks in hard and fast.
If I want porn I watch porn, I dont give myself softcore blueballs. But sometimes when I’m dumbscrolling I’ll click on one and YT thinks I submitted a bulk order.
It only seems to show me the same 15-20 shorts since they first started featuring shorts on the main page. They’re relevant to what I watch, but they’re all hella old and I’ve seen the ones that interest me already. IDK why it never updates.
Do you run an adblocker like PiHole or ADGuard on your network?
I do have a PiHole. Why would that change the recommendations?
Perhaps if their ad services (googleadservices.com, doubleclick) have something to do with it, but I frankly doubt it.
I have no idea but I experience the same problem with small set of repeating shorts when on my home wifi network.
If I disconnect my phone from the wifi and use mobile internet instead, it often starts working better with YouTube Shorts.
Edit: my comment was about the set of shorts repeating and not why the algorithm choose sexy shorts for you.
I watched them mindlessly for a while, starting recently. But then the algorithm just started showing me like the same 15 videos and nothing else. One or two new ones here and there, but it’s definitely fully lost any interest I had.
Yeah lots of thirst traps. I have the big issue on FB shorts. I have to admit I’ve taken the bait and honestly it’s not worse than anything else on my feed so whatever.
