Reminds me of how when my kids finish watching a decent-quality kids show on Prime or YouTube, the algorithm will try to autoplay absolute pablum like Baby Shark, Cocomelon, or some other trash. It’s like it deliberately chooses the most basic mind-numbing schlock available.
The algorithms prioritize things that other users spend a lot of time watching, not relevant or healthy content. Just addictive slop. It’s such a major failing of our institutions that this practice hasn’t been regulated away.
Reminds me of the time I finished watching a stick figure fight video as a kid, went to take a shower without realizing autoplay was a thing and came back to snow white hentai
Keep saying this, and no one has ever had a plausible answer: YouTube does not do that to me.
I watch lots of gun content, you would think I’d be overrun with right-wing horseshit, but that never happens. I get sane channels, apolitical, learning, legal and fun related stuff, like I like.
Here’s my front page this evening. All interesting except maybe some TV shows I’m not familiar with but have watched clips. Don’t think I’ve done much of anything to curate all that, just let YouTube decide.
The only time I remember the algorithm going nuts was after looking at survival gear and gas masks. LOL, quickly run down with crazier and edgier content. That could have been a rabbit hole, had to cut myself off before it got worse.
Maybe it has to do with my subscriptions?
One possible answer is that there is only one country on this planet that equates gun ownership with politics - from a global point of view it wouldn’t make sense to have an algorithm that connects fire arms to a particular political slant.
dude baby shark is a time.machine. With baby shark playing 1 year feels like 10. I have PTSD from it. Not even over reacting, If I hear baby shark I start screaning “turn it off!!! turn it off!!”
Baby Shark Do Do Do Doo Do Do Doo Doooo…
pablum
schlock
Hey thanks, I learned 2 new words today :)
God I despise that little neoliberal worm.
I’m confused. Is it Bill Maher or just the concept of “You may also like” in general that you take exception to?
It’s Bill Maher and them continuing to try to push his stupid show after hundreds of failed attempts.
I don’t really have anything against a “you may like” function that DOESN’T insist on the same bullshit recommendation for over a decade of me rejecting it…
I wouldn’t even credit them with that much thought. It’s far more likely that it’s simply “you watched late-night political comedy talk show, so here’s another late night political “comedy” talk show.”
You are underestimating how these people operate and what agenda they are pushing here
If it was all about agenda wouldn’t they just fire John Oliver?
Wrong agenda. It doesn’t matter who on the political divide is right or wrong, the agenda is the ad money and continued viewership.
That I agree with. I thought you were implying they wanted to push people towards a more right leaning show. I don’t think they care so long as you keep subscribing.
You are underestimating how truly idiotic the corporate world actually is.
I don’t know bro… They are a lot of things bit calling them idiots is misguided since they are winning and we ate getting fucked.
Sure there is stupidity around but here I would posit somebody plugging bills show to juice his numbers if what OP said is true ie it’s always this clown and it’s not a rotation
Bill is classic regime whore for the owner class he the money and guilt
It’s an HBO political-comedy talk show. As far as I know, that’s a category of 2. It doesn’t take a conspiracy to see how one would be constantly in the suggestions of the other.
Is bill the only other practical option to shill here. I am not sure how their line looks but yeah if they got two horses then I see you point.
don’t tell me what I might like, don’t tell me what kinda day to have!!!
You may also like Bill Maher?
What a slap in the face. Maher and MAX can eat shit.
Should be renamed things you may absolutely hate
Would prefer to never have to see his eminently punchable face again, but truth’s a good start I guess 🤷
Hulu instead shows you the latest episode of a serial show, hopefully there isn’t massive spoilers
I’m more surprised it doesn’t fail to load. Fuck Hulu and their shitty player.
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What?
It’s recommending Bill Maher because they watched Last Week Tonight.
Bill Maher sucks. Last Week Tonight fucks.
Most people watching Last Week Tonight are not going to also be Bill Maher fans.
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I wish they’d let us hide shows like you can hide channels on YouTube
You can’t hide channels on YouTube without a 3rd party addon. YouTube kept suggesting me videos from channels I think unsubscribed to until I did that.
To stop YouTube from suggesting a specific channel, follow these steps:
- Open YouTube on your device.
- Hover over a video from the unwanted channel on your homepage or sidebar.
- Click the three dots that appear next to the video title.
- Select “Don’t recommend channel” from the dropdown menu
That doesn’t stop it for me.
Maybe try opening the yt app on your tv amd doing it through that UI. Could be your desktop browser’s anti-tracking is messing it up.
I only use yt though a web browser or through Grayjay. I don’t even have a smart tv. If the 3rd party antitracking stuff is messing things up, I’ll fix it with other 3rd party stuff.
Well it seems like that’s not working for you lol
No, the 3rd party blocker is working just fine. Before that, I would select “Not Interested” or “Don’t recommend this channel” and it would remove certain channels for a while, but eventually the algo decided that I wanted to see those “high engagement” channels.
Legacy format. You should be able to fully block suggestions you’re not only not interested in but that make your stomach turn. We obviously have the tech to have more sophisticated suggestions now.
You should be able to fully block suggestions you’re not only not interested in but that make your stomach turn.
EXACTLY! It’s like they WANT me to associate one of if not THE best show on the platform with nausea and seething resentment!
If you love Gandhi, you’re gonna looove Hitler!!!
Ghandi loved Hitler, so how could his fans not?
They rely on people getting up to take a shit after Last Week Tonight to juice those Bill Maher numbers
Does it autoplay or something?
In my experience, yes
To be fair I can see the leap. Bill Maher made HBO’s political arm for a long time…
Now he is just a tired old dip shit (instead of just a dip shit)
You can turn off the autoplay. It still minimizes the credits to show you other shows.
I saw a clip of this moron for the first time a week or two ago.
The entire segment was him saying that genocide against native peoples was justified because they too had violence present in their societies. Of course, the overwhelming majority of complex life on earth include violence in their behavior repetoire.
So per this dipshit, you’re morally justified in wiping out complex life.
Bill Maher is the smug “liberal” elite that I think conservatives think all educated democrats are. He thinks he’s the smartest person in the room, has consistently bad takes and just generally sucks. He is all but the definition of smug. He thinks he’s George Carlin but is not
This.
I cannot tolerate him. It’s the conceited, condescending, arrogant attitude.
I loved when Bill Burr and Seth MacFarlane put him in his place.
People like Maher is why blue collar Americans hate liberals.
Exactly. He’s stoned off the scent of his own flatulence
During my “libertarian” phase I was trying to get into him. I figured out pretty quickly that he isn’t well researched and his only response to anything he disagreed with is condescension and pessimistic sarcasm.
This dude is the textbook definition of a reactionary centrist: so comfortable with his entrenched wealth that he’ll gladly sell out anyone who is getting stomped by the system that he benefits from.
Which is why I advocate eating the rich, we should have started decades ago
Americans have guns so Im allowed to shoot them all, right?
Only if they’re brown enough. That’s the real unsaid part here.
Yes.
Me first, please
Yes! And there’s no, “Thumbs Down,” or, “Not Interested,” option, eo you can’t make him go away! Every fucking time I watch Last Week Tonight I have to see this smug dipshit’s stupid face.
On cable as long as you had a DVR you could skip every commercial. With streaming, ads are baked into the experience and commercials can be made unskippable. It sucks.
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Aint it great when paying gets you a worse experience.
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Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.
You can see it here live. OP’s problem is not the price but that the service is shit, and the only solution you can see in this thread is piracy.
From 2013 to 2020 I didn’t have bittorrent installed anywhere, and paid for Netflix, NowTV, and Crunchyroll. Then the enshittification kicked in, and now most of what I watch is from bittorrent.
Bill went bad. He was okay until we found out what he really believes.
Even before that, I couldn’t stand him tbh. He’s probably one of the most smug people in the entire world.
He makes Jeremy Clarkson and pregnant women look like Keanu Reeves and Dolly Parton
dude, comparing Clarkson to Keanu? that’s a low blow, but whatever. i gotta say something about comparing pregnant women to Dolly Parton though. Dolly doesn’t deserve that. I’d like to think we’re better than that here on lemmy.
dude, comparing Clarkson to Keanu? that’s a low blow
I was contrasting the smugness of Clarkson with the total lack of same of Keanu, which is eminently apt IMHO 🤷
i gotta say something about comparing pregnant women to Dolly Parton though. Dolly doesn’t deserve that. I’d like to think we’re better than that here on lemmy
Again, I was contrasting the extremely smug with the not at all smug.
I was complimenting Keanu and Dolly, not condemning them.
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You may 😁
It is the only other late-night political talk show they seem to have, to be fair.
How many other ones are there? Other than maybe daily show, which isn’t “late night.”
Like Amanpour & Company and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, though these admittedly do have a bit of difference. And The Daily Show is late-night.
it also features a white guy in a suit…
Turns on VPN for Brazil. yt-dlp the weekly episode. Place on Jellyfin media server. Rejoice.
Where is yt-dlp finding full episodes?
They post them to you tube after they air but they are region locked. Just find a vpn in South America and you can watch it (or download it)
Oh, interesting. This is the first I’ve heard of that sort of thing happening on YouTube. I know other platforms have different stuff in different regions. Netflix, etc. But I didn’t consider that a show would post full stuff for just non-US regions.
Thanks for the details.
