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        6 months ago

        And the sheer amount of weird pseudo-reality-show-shovelware! Good grief, people! If you want made up content that’s supposed to look like the real thing, watch porn!

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          His early videos that got him popular were insane and novel. I watched them from curiosity. As for why he’s still… I have no idea. I don’t know anyone who watches him. It can’t just be kids.

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            Roblox has completed its long-awaited direct listing on the NYSE, with shares closing at $69.47 for a fully diluted value of $45.3 billion—a gargantuan valuation for a video game company that rose to prominence and saw massive growth during the pandemic

            Why exactly can’t it just be kids?

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        6 months ago

        I don’t watch him or any top YouTubers, but many other clickbait thumbnails are far worse and more annoying with their shocked “YouTube face”…

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      I like how they actually removed suggestions on the home page on the first time you visit logged out. I never click on anything on the home page suggestions and most of the stuff there is garbage, so it’s actually refreshing just to see a blank home page.

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      It’s still garbage, but you’re 100% correct about it being 1000x worse logged out, at least it’s like that for me.

      I started getting a shitload of recommended videos based off an app I played for 5 minutes and deleted.

      I never looked it up on youtube or google, and I didn’t even search for it in the play store, I just saw it listed as similar to a different game that I did look up.

      And after a week of constantly telling them to stop recommending me these videos because I don’t like them, I’m still seeing them.

      Again, played the app for a few minutes and deleted, have now spent more time telling youtube to stop showing it to me than I spent playing.

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        Google does a fair amount of data gathering even if you don’t log in. I think it does it through cookies, fingerprinting or browser inspection

        If I use a session long enough it will start to change to my actual taste

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        6 months ago

        Could you send a screenshot of what you see? I’m curious to see if it’s different

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        If your tastes are anything except the average population’s, you will have little to no interest in the homepage suggestions.