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Omega_Haxors ,

People said I was crazy for pointing out that google actively sides with the extremely far right but at least now people are starting to see it.

Psythik ,

I believe it. The algorithm keeps pushing far right videos to my feed despite Google knowing damn well that I can’t stand Republicans. Not to mention that it likes to show left wing media to the far right, so that they can dislike it and brigade the comments. Yet when a Fox News video is posted, nothing but likes and praise in the comments. If you didn’t know any better it could lead you to believe that 90% of Americans are MAGA Republicans.

seaQueue ,
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I buy $2 sale priced ebooks from the play store occasionally and I’ve had a couple dozen hard right trash tracts from folks like Jordan Peterson dropped into my “Books for You” recommendations. The best part is that you can’t flag them as “not interested” from the play store, you have to open a separate app (Play Books), navigate to the same feed, find the book and then you can tell the algorithm to get that shit out of your face.

TopRamenBinLaden ,

I would consider myself pretty leftist, but I still occasionally get stuff like that, too. The only thing I can think of is that I am into fishing and the fishing demographic skews towards viewing right-wing content, I imagine. Maybe you have some other interest that aligns with people who watch right wing related stuff somewhere somehow?

I don’t think it’s a conspiracy, if anything it’s got to be a hiccup in the YouTube content algorithm somewhere.

Psythik ,

I mean not really, unless cars and computers are a right wing thing now.

The most conservative thing I do is own guns, but only out of necessity and not because I like them. I literally never watch videos about them so IDK.

TopRamenBinLaden ,

The car stuff might somehow be skewing it depending on what type of car stuff, but honestly who knows. It’s Google, so they may be pulling stuff from anywhere that your Google/YouTube email is allowed to access data.

It could maybe just skew towards showing right-wing stuff by default because it gets its normal righty viewers, plus the lefty hate watchers that way. Those kind of videos probably get more engagement, too, with full on debates going on in the comments.

Polar ,

Dude, mine promotes an app for finding friends.

Google is suggesting this because of OPs history. Calm your tits.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/1eed8eb5-e809-4a19-9f5b-8cd6badbd10c.png

Sargteapot ,

Mines a chat app for singles hahaha https://lemmy.nz/pictrs/image/e6411bc8-f47f-4838-a666-71bc7cb870a2.png

Polar ,

Google is pushing relationships on you! /s

Moneo ,

Hahahahah

Cries

Omega_Haxors ,

That’s pretty funny. I don’t think that app is going to help you if this is how you treat people.

Polar ,

Don’t need it, thanks.

ALostInquirer ,

Out of curiosity, are you Canadian, or just on the Canadian instance? I ask because if memory serves the search results tend to be a combination of search history (if you have personalized ads enabled, you can opt out of them), country/region, and general subject/topic (so in this case social apps), probably among other details.

cheery_coffee ,

For these types of things there’s usually a statistical scale where you fall between your interests and your demographic interests.

An ad might be targeted to your location, gender, age, or your ad-interests.

Go to your Google Ad preferences and see what they know about you, it’s a lot.

citruslumps ,

Stop thinking in binary.

Omega_Haxors ,

That’s a new way of dogwhistling “lets have some nuance here”

Chunk ,

It’s actually really sad you see the world this way. I hope you can eventually come to appreciate the imperfect and nuanced world we live in.

Schadrach ,

More likely it’s a combination of his previous search history and how much Truth Social is paying for ad space.

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