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?
I get the “Fun fact!” guy, that sorta fat dude who apparently has a forge and a farm and runs a DnD campaign…? that one dude that critiques crap tool reviews and ends every video with “There you go!” and a channel that…over-explains the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers?
I don’t get any tit bait which means I’ve either done something wrong or done something right.
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I don’t know why there’s so much soft porn on every platform, skirting the rules and hiding just enough to be allowed.
The real porn is still there. You can just go look at it.
Google knows!!!
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.
Is this that family friendly platform I keep hearing about?
The algorithm force feeds you what you want to see… whether you know it or not
Judging purely from what you’ve already clicked on.
And how long you watched
Obligatory Viva La Dirt League Video
this video’s timeline tells you all you need to know about the subject
I got a lesbian lumberjack. She’s jacked. I’m not even mad.
Edit: For the curious https://youtube.com/shorts/U87Y4HnGQWY
Lovely!
She really is. She has the radiance of youth and fantastic muscle tone. Long may she lumberjack. 🫡
holy shit lmao the first wood just gave up
She knows her way around a maul.
But if I click, will I start getting recommendations like OP’s feed?
That’s a good question. Usually I will delete from my viewing history when I don’t want recommendations but it may work differently with shorts. The YT app has an incognito mode, but I think you will get ads (even if you pay for no ads) while it is on.
Look how energetic she is
Ah, to be young and a lesbian.
I wish I had committed massive fraud so I was sentenced to death and be be able to choose to be chopped down alive by her 🥺
Dark but oddly relatable. Have an upvote.
She is peak wholesome+handsome content. The fun she’s having decimating those logs is infectious.
Quality recommendation 👍
She’s great. I saw a video of her a while ago using a sword that’s designed to cut trees down.
I remember when she got a sword! She’s fantastic.
Oh WOW. I’d not seen that! Thank you.
My shorts feed mostly consists of videos about the signs of depression and mechanical keyboards.
You might want to stay away from mechanical keyboards.
Jelly- mine is all electronics, home building, and plumbers. Oh yeah, and a bunch of standup comedy.
Yes you are.
I’m always on an anonymous VPN and for work am never logged in to YouTube and this is the unfiltered garbage I see too on suggested content.
Works fairly well for me when I’m on the shorts doomscrolling. Your mileage could vary of course.
Bro you should have investigated the actual answer to this question before asking it publicly 😃
It’s not to say you’re watching lots of soft core porn but the algorithm has definitely decided that you’ll like it
Well that’s just not how recommendation algorithms work. A part of it will be content based, directly related to what the user can be associated with.
However, the largest part is collaboration based filtering of content. That means, our user is put in a group based on his other preferences, let’s assume nerdy tech stuff, and then is shown content that he has not liked yet but his group of peers has, meaning he could probably like it too.
In other words - he’s not the one in fault here, YOU are (you pretty much have to be nerdy tech folks to be here).
Please, could everyone here stop clicking on this stuff so that OP don’t have to be associated with your filthy behavior, thank you.
that’s just not how recommendation algorithms work
I didn’t say anything about how they work – only that it shows you stuff it thinks you will like. Which is basically what you said.
However, the largest part is collaboration based filtering of content. That means, our user is put in a group based on his other preferences, let’s assume nerdy tech stuff, and then is shown content that he has not liked yet but his group of peers has, meaning he could probably like it too.
Yes, based on other user patterns and how it categorizes him, it thinks he could probably like soft core porn too. That is, in fact, how it works. Glad we agree.
In other words - he’s not the one in fault here, YOU are
Please, could everyone here stop clicking on this stuff so that OP don’t have to be associated with your filthy behavior, thank you.
So it’s perfectly realistic that everyone could be clicking on soft core porn to feed the algorithm these ideas, in contrast to OP, who couldn’t possibly be clicking on it? You’ve decided they’re the one and only person who definitely isn’t doing that when clearly someone is?
How could you write this hostile and condescending message when I actually made a specific point to highlight the exact point you’re making (“It’s not to say you’re watching lots of soft core porn”) in my message? If a little more succinctly. I wasn’t blaming OP in any way, just explaining (just as you did) that the algorithm based on his viewing patterns is what decides what to show him.
I had hoped that my last sentence showed my post was clearly in jest. The factual information was just needed to set up the joke. Neither hostility nor condescension was applied.
In fact, the avid reader might catch that I have implied myself in the group of people causing OP’s annoying trouble with light-clothed females since I too am here - presumably a tech nerd like OP and meddling with the algorithms affecting him by clicking on unsavory content.
Ooooh
Yeah I totally missed it. My apologies.
There’s alot I could argue with but maybe the best answer I have is: why just the shorts? The rest of my YouTube feed kinda sucks but it isn’t porn or titillating at all.
Theyre separate algorithms so its prolly the only type of shorts youve clicked or hovered over for a some time
That’s the thing, I think I’ve watched maybe 2 shorts ever, pretty sure they were not like these or at least only mildly sexy
But it’s Google, so they know your browsing history and have you in a “bucket” for what their metrics think will drive engagement from you. (Or they don’t know enough about you and just think boobs will get you intersted, because sex sells.)
Meh. We’re all human. If Google thinks you like thirst traps, whatevs. Pretty ladies are pretty ladies.
But if you don’t want to see it, you can probably use feedback tools to change what they show you.
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I’ve gotten sexualized ads in my work Gmail which I only use for work emails and nothing else. Pretty sure step one of Google’s algorithms is “is man? Show titty”
